Jae Yong Lee

MLE @ Apple Inc.

Hello! My name is Jae Yong Lee (Jae) and I am a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple.

Prior to joining Apple, I received my PhD from UIUC under Professor Derek Hoiem, specializing in computer vision. Throughout and prior to my PhD, I’ve also worked as a computer vision engineer and as a full-stack software engineer at Reconstruct Inc.

I am well-versed in researching novel ideas for computer vision / machine learning algorithms and turning ideas into scalable productions. In particular, I have in-depth experience in designing and experimenting new CV/ML algorithms, optimizing complex ML algorithm runtimes by writing custom first/second order gradient functions in CUDA, developing load-balanced backend system, presenting processed data with interactive frontend interfaces, all the way up to rendering visualizable assets using OpenGL. i.e, from idea to pixels ;)

Feel free to reach out if you're interested in my work

Research

I am mostly interested in solving geometric computer vision problems by using machine learning. Below are selected publications.

Experience

Apple Inc.
  • Machine Learning Engineer
    2024-
Reconstruct Inc.
  • Computer Vision Engineer
    2020 - 2024
  • Lead Visualization Engnieer
    2019
  • Part-time developer / Intern
    2015-2016
Freelance
  • Lead Software Engineer
    2016-2018
Meta Reality Lab
  • Research Intern
    Summer 2022
Amazon.com
  • Research Intern
    Summer 2021
Microsoft
  • Research Intern
    Summer 2020
  • Research Intern
    Summer 2019