Heekyung (Anne) Lee
Hi! I am Heekyung(Anne) Lee. I am an Undergraduate Student studying Computer Science at POSTECH, South Korea. (Research Advisor: Prof. Minsu Cho) I am also an undergraduate researcher at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR), fortunate to be supervised under Prof. Trevor Darrell’s group. (Advisors: Prof. Trevor Darrell, Prof. Sewon Min, and David M. Chan)
I am interested in building trustworthy multi-modal models, that can flexibly adapt to the user’s needs, acting naturally and efficiently in complex multi-modality environments.
I am recently excited about the two questions below:
- Controllable and Adaptable Vision-Language Models
∘ How can we build controllable and adaptable intelligence that can adapt their behavior to the user's needs?
∘ What is Hallucination in multi-modal models, and what is the best recipe to mitigate it? - Real-World Multimodal Understanding
∘ How can we represent the world as input data that reflects the world's complexity in a better way?
∘ How can we build models that are capable of handling complex multi-modality environments as an input? (e.g. how should models know which modality to focus on for a given task?)
Feel free to check out my publications and projects.
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And also, I am a huge sports person! I generally enjoy playing soccer and running. Let’s be Strava friends! (Follow me here)
news
| Oct 21, 2025 | 🔥 Check out our new paper Constantly Improving Image Models Need Constantly Improving Benchmarks! Link to 🧵: @ECHO. |
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| Sep 19, 2025 | ✈️ I am attending NeurIPS 2025 with our work on Generate, but Verify: Reducing Visual Hallucination in Vision-Language Models with Retrospective Resampling. Very excited to see you all in person! |
| Aug 20, 2025 | ✈️ I am attending EMNLP 2025 to present my work on Puzzled by Puzzles: When Vision-Language Models Can’t Take a Hint. See you in Suzhou, China! |
| Aug 14, 2025 | 🇩🇪 I obtained A1 level certificate in Goethe-Zertifikat in German language! |