*Hi, I am Soo Yong Lee. I am a Ph.D. student at DMLab, KAIST.

I am broadly interested in studying complex systems, such as the human mind and networks. How do they arise? How do we predict and control them? My research aims to find clues to such questions.*

About Me.

Education

• Ph.D. in AI, KAIST, 2023-Present
  • Advisor: Kijung Shin, Ph.D.
  • GPA: 3.62/4.30
• M.S. in AI, KAIST, 2021-2023
  • Advisor: Kijung Shin, Ph.D.
  • GPA: 3.61/4.30
• B.S. in Psychology, UCSD, 2013-2016
  • Advisor: Sidney Zisook, M.D.
  • GPA: 3.84/4.00 (magna cum laude)

Awards

• Best Reviewer of KDD 2024 (top 1.2%; 30/2558)
• Outstanding Reviewer of KDD 2025 (top 10%)

Contacts

• Email: syleetolow@kaist.edu
• Github
• Linkedin
• Google Scholar

Featured Work.

Emergence of psychopathological computations in large language models [link]

This work presents the first mechanistic investigation that demonstrates computations of psychopathology, as characterized by self-perpetuating activations of dysfunctional representational states, may have emerged in the current large language models (LLMs).

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• [Conclusion]
• [Implication]

Career History.

Career History