Jaehyeok Lee

Jaehyeok Lee

Ph.D. student @ SKKU (HLI Lab)

hjl8708@skku.edu

I'm a Ph.D. student at Sungkyunkwan University, advised by Prof. JinYeong Bak. I am broadly interested in building AI systems that can reason and act robustly and efficiently in real-world scenarios. I also explore how to equip these systems with human values and emotions. Currently, I'm interning at Microsoft Research Asia Beijing under the guidance of Dr. Xiaoyuan Yi, focusing on cultural alignment in large language models.

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Recent Updates

  • [2025/06/25] Our ACL paper was selected for oral presentation and invited to a panel discussion!🥳 (25 papers, 0.8% of accepted papers)
  • [2025/05/16] The paper on safety analysis of value-aligned LLMs has been accepted to ACL 2025
  • [2025/05/01] Presented the paper on Consistency-Driven Rationale Evaluation for Self-Training at NAACL 2025
  • [2025/03/10] I will be joining Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing as a Research Intern for 6 months, starting in July 2025

Publications

Unintended Harms of Value-Aligned LLMs: Psychological and Empirical Insights

Sooyung Choi*, Jaehyeok Lee*, Xiaoyuan Yi, Jing Yao, Xing Xie, JinYeong Bak (*: equal contribution)

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)

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Self-Training Meets Consistency: Improving LLMs' Reasoning with Consistency-Driven Rationale Evaluation

Jaehyeok Lee, Keisuke Sakaguchi, JinYeong Bak

Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025)

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Enhancing Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversation with Contextual Information

Jaehyeok Lee, DongJin Jeong, JinYeong Bak

Authorea preprint 2023

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Experience

Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing (Jul 2025 – Dec 2025 [expected])

Research Intern

Human Language Intelligence Lab @ SKKU (Aug 2022 – Present)

Student Researcher

Education

Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) (Mar 2025 – Present)

Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence

Advisor: Prof. JinYeong Bak

Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) (Mar 2023 – Feb 2025)

M.S., Artificial Intelligence

Advisor: Prof. JinYeong Bak

Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) (Mar 2017 – Feb 2023)

B.S., Computer Science and Engineering

B.S., Chemical Engineering

Talks

Psychological and Empirical Insights on the Harms of Aligning LLMs with Human Values

Microsoft Research Asia Intern Tech Talk (Summer 2025)

Languages

  • Korean: Native
  • English: Working proficiency
  • Japanese: Advanced (JLPT N1)

Patents

Device and method for generating emotion-cause pair based on conversation, and storage medium storing instruction to perform method for generating emotion cause pair

DongJin Jeong, JinYeong Bak, Jaehyeok Lee

United States Patent Application

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Honors & Awards

  • Daesang Foundation Scholarship (2025-2026)
  • Dean's List – SKKU (2022)