Joonhun Lee

RL engineer from 🇰🇷 for now. I translate research-stage ideas into deployable systems that hold up under real-world constraints — most recently RL execution policies running live in APAC equity and futures markets.

  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Uncertainty & Distribution Shift
  • Live Decision Systems

Experience

PLAiF

RL Engineer
Aug '26 - Present

Qraft Technologies

AI Research Team Lead

Led research and release decisions for live RL execution across APAC equity and futures markets, while extending the same evaluation discipline to trading-research agents and asset allocation.

AI Researcher

Built and deployed RL systems for equity execution and futures trading, reducing live execution cost by 10bp+ and releasing internal strategies that sustained 100%+ annualized return at 3+ Sharpe over seven months.

Dec '23 - Aug '26

Wavebridge

Quantitative Developer

Built CEX/DEX market-making infrastructure, including venue-aware simulators and low-latency on-chain data pipelines spanning 5+ global and 3+ Korean chains.

Sep '23 - Nov '23

DoctorNow

Chief of Staff

Supported the close of a ₩40B Series B and led the cross-functional launch of a triage-room waiting-time prediction service during the Omicron wave.

Oct '21 - Feb '22

Research

Generalized Gaussian Temporal Difference Error for Uncertainty-aware Reinforcement Learning

Replaced the Gaussian TD-error assumption with a learnable generalized-Gaussian model, improving uncertainty estimation and SAC/PPO sample efficiency under heavy-tailed dynamics.

Under review

Feature-aligned N-BEATS with Sinkhorn divergence

Aligned N-BEATS feature distributions across source domains with Sinkhorn divergence, improving out-of-domain forecasting under severe distribution shift while preserving the model's interpretable basis decomposition.

ICLR '24 Spotlight

MINR: Implicit Neural Representations with Masked Image Modelling

Predicted continuous coordinate-MLPs from visible pixels with a transformer hypernetwork, improving reconstruction across unseen masks and OOD domains with roughly 7x fewer parameters than MAE-Large.

ICCV '23 Workshop

Education

Seoul National University

M.S. in Computational Science and Technology
Mar '22 - Feb '24

CFA Institute

Passed all three levels of the CFA Program

Seoul National University

B.S. in Physics Education
Mar '17 - Feb '22

Skills

AI / ML
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Distributional RL
  • Uncertainty-Aware RL
  • Deep Learning
  • Time-Series Modeling
  • Representation Learning
  • Domain Generalization
Programming & Tooling
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • SQL
  • Rust
  • Go
  • C++
  • Git
  • Docker

Interests

Personal Agents · Mechanical Watches · Golf & Tennis