AI professor, builder, CAIO

Young Joon Lee

I build accountable AI systems for education, public institutions, and real-world decisions.

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Portrait of Young Joon Lee

01 / Selected work

Systems built for real institutions.

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education / 2025

Agentic RAG Technology for Intelligent Educational Platforms

Building a next-generation AI tutoring platform fusing Agentic RAG with Socratic dialogue — RISE Industry-Academia Joint Research with Saltlux, Yonsei University, and KAIST.

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02

education

Agentic AI-Based Intelligent Education Platform

Joint development of AI Professor System integrating Saltlux LUXIA LLM and Cheju Halla's education platform
03

research

Development of a Pathology Database for an Internet Hospital Platform

AI-powered virtual physician for healthcare delivery with pathology database development and NLP applications

02 / Current responsibilities

Teaching, institutional change, and applied research.

  1. 01

    Associate Professor

    Department of AI, Cheju Halla University

  2. 02

    CAIO and VP for AX

    Office of AI Innovation, Cheju Halla University

  3. 03

    Center Director

    Natural Language Research Center

Working across
  • Agentic AI Platform
  • RovoRoad Jeju RISE
  • TIU AI Center
  • STAI Workshop

03 / Recent activity

Notes from the field.

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  1. 01

    A Ladder with the Air Force on It

    Fourteen institutions launched the A2CL council in Incheon, pairing Jeju's NewSpace industry with Incheon's aircraft maintenance base. The rung I keep pointing at is the one nobody expects.
  2. 02

    The Agreement Came After the Work

    KBS Jeju and Cheju Halla University signed an AI cooperation agreement, but the real decision was made last spring, when we spent an election finding out whether we could work together.
  3. 03

    RovoRoad Hits the Road: Our First Jeju Field Demonstration

    On Jeju's public roads this June, our AI spotted the potholes and a robot filled them — the first field demonstration of the RovoRoad unmanned repair system, and the close of Year 1.

04 / Research

Recent publications.

Publication archive
  1. 01

    PDTune: Database Parameter Dependency-Aware Optimization

    KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices (KTCP)
  2. 02

    Prediction of Road Maintenance Intervention and Assessment of Influencing Factors with ML-SHAP: Focusing on Road Traffic Conditions in Jeju

    Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
  3. 03

    A Case Study in Jeju Island of Automated Pothole Management Framework

    International Journal of Highway Engineering