Jin Woo Lee
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT

  

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I am a postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) advised by Prof. Mark Rau in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). I study music technology, artificial intelligence, and physical modeling, involving audio, music, speech, and acoustics. My research interests include virtual sound synthesis, digital audio effects, musical acoustics, audio signal processing, and numerical simulation. Prior to joining MIT, I earned Ph.D. from Seoul National University (SNU) in 2024, following a B.Sc. from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2019. I will be serving as a faculty member of the Graduate School of Culture Technology at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) from Fall 2026.


Recent Updates

Will start as an Assistant Professor at KAIST in Fall 2026 February 20, 2026
Selected as a NeurIPS 2025 Top Reviewer October 17, 2025
Joined MIT as a postdoc July 1, 2025
Tutorial has been accepted for presentation at ISMIR 2025 April 30, 2025
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Previous Positions

Seoul, KR, 2025

Gaudio Lab, AI Scientist

Redmond, WA, 2024

Meta, Research Scientist Intern

Seoul, KR, 2021,2023

Supertone, Research Scientist Intern

Education

2019 - 2024 Ph.D. in Intelligence and Information
Seoul National University (SNU)


Thesis: Physical Modeling for String Instrument Sound Synthesis based on Finite-difference Scheme and Automatic Differentiation
Advisor: Kyogu Lee

2013 - 2019 B.Sc. in Mechanical Eng.
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

Publications

[Google Scholar] [h5-index: Engineering & Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence / Acoustics & Sound ]
Selected publications are highlighted.


2024

1. Differentiable Modal Synthesis for Physical Modeling of Planar String Sound and Motion Simulation [TL;DR] [demo] [poster] [openreview]
Jin Woo Lee, Jaehyun Park, Min Jun Choi, and Kyogu Lee
NeurIPS 2024
2. Inverse Nonlinearity Compensation of Hyperelastic Deformation in Dielectric Elastomer for Acoustic Actuation [TL;DR]
Jin Woo Lee, Gwangseok An, Jeong-Yun Sun, and Kyogu Lee
IEEE Access 2024
3. String Sound Synthesizer on GPU-accelerated Finite Difference Scheme [TL;DR] [code] [demo] [poster]
Jin Woo Lee, Min Jun Choi, and Kyogu Lee
IEEE ICASSP 2024

2023

4. AECSQI: Referenceless Acoustic Echo Cancellation Measures using Speech Quality and Intelligibility Improvement [TL;DR] [slides]
Jin Woo Lee, Hyeong-Seok Choi, and Kyogu Lee
IEEE WASPAA (Oral Presentation) 2023
5. Neural Fourier Shift for Binaural Speech Rendering [TL;DR] [code] [demo] [poster]
Jin Woo Lee and Kyogu Lee
IEEE ICASSP 2023
6. Global HRTF Interpolation via Learned Affine Transformation of Hyper-conditioned Features [TL;DR] [code] [demo] [poster]
Jin Woo Lee, Sungho Lee, and Kyogu Lee
IEEE ICASSP 2023

2022 and earlier

7. Representation Selective Self-distillation and wav2vec 2.0 Feature Exploration for Spoof-aware Speaker Verification [TL;DR] [slides]
Jin Woo Lee, Eungbeom Kim, Junghyun Koo, and Kyogu Lee
ISCA Interspeech (Oral Presentation) 2022
8. Deep Learning Approach in Multi-scale Prediction of Turbulent Mixing-layer [TL;DR]
Jin Woo Lee, Sangseung Lee, and Donghyun You
arXiv 2019

Tutorial Session and Talk

1. 2025 Differentiable Physical Modeling Sound Synthesis: Theory, Musical Application, and Programming, ISMIR 2025 Tutorial (presenters: Jin Woo Lee , Stefan Bilbao , Rodrigo Diaz )

Invited Lecture (Selected)

1. 2024 Differentiable Physical Modeling for Sound Synthesis: From Design to Inverse Problems, Stanford CCRMA, DSP Seminar
2. 2024 Differentiable Modal Synthesis for Physical Modeling of Planar String Sound and Motion Simulation, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Music and Audio Computing Lab
3. 2024 Physics-based Differentiable Sound Rendering and Machine Listening, University of Iowa, Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Professional Seminar

Teaching Experience

Certifications

Research Mentoring Certificate (RMC), MIT 2026
Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (KTCP), MIT 2025

Courses Taught

Machine Listening (TA) 2024F
Physical Modeling and Numerical Sound Synthesis (Student Instructor) 2024S

Last updated on 2025-10-20