Taeckyung Lee

Ph.D. Candidate, KAIST

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate at KAIST NMSL, under the guidance of Prof. Sung-Ju Lee, with close collaboration with Prof. Jinwoo Shin and Prof. Taesik Gong. I earned my M.S. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, also under the supervision of Prof. Sung-Ju Lee. I completed my B.S. in Computing at KAIST, graduating Magna Cum Laude.

My research interests include machine learning for end users, including mobile AI, model adaptation, and personalization. I am currently focusing on overcoming failures in test-time adaptation. My recent work includes “BiTTA” (ICML 2025), “AETTA” (CVPR 2024), and “SoTTA” (NeurIPS 2023), which focus on (1) RL-inspired adaptation with a few user feedback, (2) estimating adaptation performance without labeled data, and (3) adaptation with challenging noisy data streams, emphasizing the robustness and reliability of test-time adaptation.

Latest News

Jul 2025 (expected) Research intern at Microsoft Research Asia (Advisor: Lili Qiu).
Jun 2025 Recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer at CVPR ‘25 (Top-5.6%).
May 2025 First-author paper (BiTTA) accepted at ICML ‘25 (Acceptance rate: 26.9%).
May 2025 First-author paper (CrashSniffer) accepted at MobiSys Workshop (EnvSys) ‘25.
May 2025 Invited talk at UNIST UAI lab.
Feb 2024 First-author paper (AETTA) accepted at CVPR ‘24 (Acceptance rate: 23.6%).
Sep 2023 Co-first-author paper (SoTTA) accepted at NeurIPS ‘23 (Acceptance rate: 26.1%).
Jun 2022 First-author paper (PAFE) accepted at CVPR Workshop (CVPM) ‘22.
Jun 2022 Demo at MobiSys ‘22.
Oct 2020 Selected as a scholarship recipient of the Kwon Yong-se Scholarship (KAIST EE).

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, KAIST

Ph.D. Candidate in School of Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Sung-Ju Lee)

2022.08 - Present

M.S., KAIST

M.S. in School of Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Sung-Ju Lee)

2020.08 - 2022.08

B.S., KAIST

B.S. in School of Computing

  • GPA 3.96/4.30 (Magna Cum Laude), Advanced Major, Certificate in AI

2016.02 - 2020.08

Conference Publications

Taeckyung Lee, Sorn Chottananurak, Junsu Kim, Jinwoo Shin, Taesik Gong^, Sung-Ju Lee^

ICML 2025 (^: Equal advising. Acceptance rate: 26.9%)

Taeckyung Lee, Sorn Chottananurak, Taesik Gong, Sung-Ju Lee

CVPR 2024 (Acceptance rate: 23.6%)

Taesik Gong*, Yewon Kim*, Taeckyung Lee*, Sorn Chottananurak, Sung-Ju Lee

NeurIPS 2023 (* Co-first author. Acceptance rate: 26.1%)

Workshop Publications

Taeckyung Lee, Juseung Lee, Ryuhaerang Choi, Seungjoo Lee, Hyeongheon Cha, Hyungjun Yoon, Song Min Kim, Sangwook Bak, Sung-Ju Lee.

MobiSys Workshops (EnvSys) 2025 (Oral presentation, peer-reviewed, archived)

Taeckyung Lee, Dain Kim, Sooyoung Park, Dongwhi Kim, Sung-Ju Lee

CVPR Workshops (CVPM) 2022 (Oral presentation, peer-reviewed, archived)

  • Also appeared at MobiSys 2022 Demo

Work Experiences

Microsoft Research Asia

Research Intern (Advisor: Lili Qiu)

2025.07 - 2025.12 (expected)

Networking and Mobile Systems Lab, KAIST

Research Assistant

2020.03 - Present

Advanced Networking Lab, KAIST

Undergraduate Researcher

2019.03 - 2019.12

Honors

Outstanding Reviewer

CVPR 2025 (Top-5.6% among all reviewers)

2025.06.13

Kwon Young-se Scholarship

School of EE, KAIST (Top-2 among EE grad school applicants in 2020 Fall)

2020.10.12

The National Scholarship for Science and Engineering

Ministry of Science and ICT, Korean Government (In acknowledgment of a high GPA)

2018.08.10

Professional Services

Program Committee

  • AAAI ‘26

Journal Reviewer

  • TMLR

Conference Reviewer

  • NeurIPS ‘24, ‘25
  • ICCV ‘25
  • ICML ‘25
  • CVPR ‘24, ‘25
  • ICLR ‘25

Workshop Reviewer

  • 2nd Workshop on Test-Time Adaptation (PUT) @ ICML ‘25

Teaching Experiences

Teaching Assistant, KAIST

  • EE209 Programming Structures for EE (Spring 2025 (Head TA), Fall 2024, Spring 2023 (Head TA), Fall 2021 (Head TA))
  • EE323 Computer Networks (Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021)
  • EE415 Operating Systems and System Programming for EE (Fall 2023)
  • EE595 Mobile Computing, Sensing, Learning, and Interactions (Fall 2022)
  • CS496 Immersion Camp (Summer 2019)

Patents

UWB-based Pedestrian Collision Avoidance System for Personal Mobility Devices

Sung-Ju Lee, Taeckyung Lee, Hyungjun Yoon, Seungjoo Lee, Hyeongheon Cha

Korea Patent, Filing date: 2025.02.12, No.10-2025-0018095

Time-Aware Reinforcement-Learning Method for Geographic Ad Hoc Routing with Pre-defined Mobility

Jaeha Ahn, Sung-Ju Lee, Taesik Gong, Hyungjun Yoon, Taeckyung Lee

Korea Patent; Date of patent: 2024.12.02, No.10-2738891, Filing date: 2022.11.11, No.10-2022-0150662

Reinforcement Learning for Ad-hoc Routing Using Pre-defined Mobility

Sung-Ju Lee, Taesik Gong, Hyungjun Yoon, Taeckyung Lee, Jaeha Ahn

Korea Patent; Date of patent: 2024.04.22, No.10-2660836, Filing date: 2022.03.21, No.10-2022-0034824

Miscellaneous

E-Sports

As a previous enthusiastic e-sports player, I am also interested in human factors in e-sports.

Analysis on Personality and In-Game Factors in League of Legends (Link)

  • I conducted an in-depth analysis of the personalities and in-game factors of League of Legends players through a collaborative survey with the Professional Spectator YouTube channel.

Few records as a player:

  • Top 0.1% Player (Master tier) in KR Server, League of Legends (2020)
  • Champion in Daejeon Metropolitan City, International e-Sports Festival (IEF), League of Legends (2019)
  • Top-500 Player in KR Server, Overwatch (2017)