Yong Jae Lee

About

Yong Jae Lee is a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His core research interests lie in computer vision and machine learning, with a particular focus on creating robust AI systems capable of learning to understand our multimodal world with minimal human supervision. Prior to joining UW-Madison in 2021, he spent one year as an AI Visiting Faculty at Cruise and six years as an Assistant and then Associate Professor at UC Davis. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 under the advisement of Kristen Grauman, followed by postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon University (2012-2013) and UC Berkeley (2013-2014) advised by Alyosha Efros. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, obtained in 2006. Throughout his career, Yong Jae Lee has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award, the UC Davis Hellman Fellowship, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, AWS Machine Learning Research Awards, Adobe Data Science Research Awards, the UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Sony Focused Research Awards, the UW-Madison SACM Student Choice Professor of the Year Award, the Susan Beth Horwitz Professorship, and the H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. His work, often in collaboration with others, has also received accolades such as the Most Innovative Award at the COCO…

Research topics

• Biology
• Biochemistry
• Computational biology
• Chemistry
• Anatomy
• Genetics
• Cell biology
• Ecology
• Botany

Selected publications

• LRRC10 regulates mammalian cardiomyocyte cell cycle during heart regeneration

  npj Regenerative Medicine · 2023-07-28 · 5 citations

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  Abstract Leucine-rich repeat containing 10 (LRRC10) is a cardiomyocyte-specific protein, but its role in cardiac biology is little understood. Recently Lrrc10 was identified as required for endogenous cardiac regeneration in zebrafish; however, whether LRRC10 plays a role in mammalian heart regeneration remains unclear. In this study, we demonstrate that Lrrc10 –/– knockout mice exhibit a loss of the neonatal mouse regenerative response, marked by reduced cardiomyocyte cytokinesis and increased…

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• BPS2025 - LRRC10 exerts L-type Ca2+ current-specific modulation through interaction with the N-terminus of CaV1.2

  Biophysical Journal · 2025-02-01

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• A study of Chinese Generation Z women's intention to experience Hanfu using the Theory of Planned Behaviour : Patriotism as a mediating effect

  Korea Institute of Design Research Society · 2025-03-31

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  This study conducted an online and offline survey of 400 women in their 20s and 30s living in Beijing from September 1 to 10, 2024 to analyze factors that affect the intention of Chinese Generation Z women to experience HanFu based on the theory of planned behavior. Using SPSS 26.0, 328 parts of valid data were used for reliability, validity, regression analysis, and regulatory effect analysis. The analysis results showed that first, attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavior control all…

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• Abstract Mo059: Leucine-Rich Repeat-Containing Protein 10 Modulates Human Cardiac L-Type Ca2+ Channels but not T-Type Ca2+ Channels

  Circulation Research · 2024-08-02

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  Background: Leucine-rich repeat-containing protein 10 (LRRC10) is a novel regulator of the cardiac L-type Ca 2+ channel/current (LTCC/I Ca,L ). LRRC10 is crucial for cardiac regeneration in multiple species, and LRRC10 variants have been associated with dilated cardiomyopathy in humans. LRRC10 increases I Ca,L in HEK-293 cells expressing rabbit Ca V 1.2 subunit, and knockout of LRRC10 in zebrafish and mouse cardiomyocytes (CM) reduces I Ca,L . However, LRRC10-mediated regulation of human cardiac…

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• Abstract 4140244: In a Murine Model of Experimental Sepsis, Cardiac-Specific Jarid2 Knockdown is Associated With Improved Myocardial Function and Survival

  Circulation · 2024-11-12

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  Introduction: Sepsis is a life-threatening condition characterized by a dysregulated host response to infection, leading to acute heart failure, decreased contractile function, and biventricular dilation. Emerging evidence suggests that the transcriptional repressor Jarid2 may play a regulatory role in sepsis. Hypothesis: We hypothesize that cardiac-specific knockdown (KD) of Jarid2 could enhance cardiac function and improve survival in response to sepsis. Methods: We generated mice with cardiac…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01HL067050

  NIH · $2.7M · 2012

Frequent coauthors

• Enrico Martinoia

  University of Zurich

  92 shared

• Won‐Yong Song

  Foshan University

  34 shared

• Yuree Lee

  Seoul National University

  33 shared

• Yonghua Li‐Beisson

  Henan Agricultural University

  31 shared

• Jae‐Ung Hwang

  Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology

  30 shared

• Yasuyo Yamaoka

  Catholic University of Korea

  29 shared

• Nava Moran

  Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  23 shared

• Jeeyon Jeong

  Amherst College

  20 shared

Education

• B.S.

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2006

• Ph.D.

  University of Texas at Austin

  2012

• Other

  EECS Dept at UC Berkeley

  2014

• Other

  Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University

  2013

Awards & honors

• H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship (2025)
• Susan Beth Horwitz Professorship (2025)
• Best Paper Award at BMVC 2020
• UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty A…
• UC Davis Best Graduate Researcher in Computer Science Award…

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