Research Portfolio

Wonjun Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow at KAIST MLP Lab

Researching automatic speech recognition (ASR), NLP, LLMs, and speech foundation models.

News

2026 Joined KAIST MLP Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
2026 Graduated from POSTECH with a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering.
2026 A paper accepted at ACL 2026, Mixture-of-Experts with Intermediate CTC Supervision for Accented Speech Recognition. See publications.
2026 Open Source ASR: Kanary 1B is a ~0.95B-parameter Korean ASR model built on NVIDIA's canary-1b-v2, extending it with prompt-based control over punctuation, inverse text normalization, and foreign-word rendering tailored for Korean.
2025 DeRAGEC was accepted to ACL Findings 2025, and DyPCL was accepted to the NAACL 2025 Main Conference. See publications.
2025 Won 1st Place at ICT Challenge 2025 for the Multi-modal Multi-session Counseling System project. See awards.
2024 Received a Best Paper Nominee recognition at SIGDial 2024 for work on robust contextual awareness in dialogue speech recognition. See more.