Sungjae Lee

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at POSTECH and a member of the Machine Learning Laboratory, advised by Prof. Jungseul Ok. My research focuses on efficient and reliable LLM reasoning: how models discover new solutions, verify them, and recursively improve their ability to do both.

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Selected Publications

Bias Control and Injection for Multi-Agent Aggregation
Sungjae Lee, Soheil Abbasloo, Jabin Koo, Jungseul Ok
Preprint, 2026
Holistic Diversity Management in LLM-Guided Evolutionary Search
Seockbean Song, Youngsik Yoon, Sungjae Lee, Siwei Wang, Wei Chen, Jungseul Ok
Preprint, 2026
Dynamic Expert Pruning for Multi-Agent Systems
Jabin Koo, Soheil Abbasloo, Sungjae Lee, Jungseul Ok
Preprint, 2026
Confidence-Gated Transductive Test Generation for Code Reranking
Sungjae Lee, Youngsik Yoon, Seockbean Song, Siwei Wang, Wei Chen, Jungseul Ok
EMNLP Findings, 2026
PaT: Planning-after-trial for efficient test-time code generation
Youngsik Yoon, Sungjae Lee, Seockbean Song, Siwei Wang, Wei Chen, Jungseul Ok
ACL, 2026
Efficient Latent Semantic Clustering for Scaling Test-Time Computation of LLMs
Sungjae Lee, Hoyoung Kim, Jeongyeon Hwang, Eunhyeok Park, Jungseul Ok
EMNLP Findings, 2025
Self-Training Large Language Models with Confident Reasoning
Hyosoon Jang, Yunhui Jang, Sungjae Lee, Jungseul Ok, Sungsoo Ahn
EMNLP Findings, 2025
Semantic Exploration with Adaptive Gating for Efficient Problem Solving with Language Models
Sungjae Lee*, Hyejin Park*, Jaechang Kim, Jungseul Ok
ACL, 2025 (oral: 2.6%)
Multitask Learning with Single Gradient Step Update for Task Balancing
Sungjae Lee, Youngdoo Son
Neurocomputing, 2022

Academic Service

Reviewer
  • ACL Rolling Review: October 2025; March, May, August, and October 2026
  • ICML 2026, NeurIPS 2026, ICLR 2027

Experience

Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, Shanghai, China
March 2026 – September 2026
Machine Learning Researcher, VUNO, Seoul, South Korea
January 2021 – August 2023

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Engineering
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea
September 2023 – present
Advisor: Jungseul Ok
Master of Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea
March 2019 – February 2021
Advisor: Youngdoo Son
Bachelor of Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea
March 2012 – August 2018

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