Yongjae Lee PhD is an Associate Professor at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and the Chief Scientist of LinqAlpha AI Lab.

He leads research on how AI systems understand financial information, reason about markets, and make reliable investment decisions. He serves on the advisory editorial board for the Journal of Financial Data Science and was a Workshop Co-Chair for ICAIF ’24.

Dr. Lee has been playing a leading role in organizing numerous workshops on financial AI at premier ML/AI conferences, including NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP, KDD, AAAI, CIKM, IJCAI, SIGIR, and ICAIF. Dr. Lee actively bridges academia and policy, serving on Korea’s Presidential Council of National AI Strategy and the Financial Services Commission’s AI in Finance Committee and Innovation Financial Services Review Committee.

He received his B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences and his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from KAIST.