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Assistant Professor
KAIST Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI (South Korea)
Chulhee “Charlie” Yun is an Ewon Assistant Professor at KAIST Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, where he has directed the Optimization & Machine Learning Laboratory since 2022. Starting September 2025, he holds a joint affiliation with KAIST Graduate School of AI for Math and a part-time Visiting Faculty Researcher position at Google Research. He finished his PhD from the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT, under the joint supervision of Prof. Suvrit Sra and Prof. Ali Jadbabaie, following an MSc from Stanford University and a BSc from KAIST. His research focuses on the theoretical aspects of optimization algorithms, machine learning, and deep learning, with the goal of bridging the gap between theory and practice in these areas.