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Dohyeon Lee

Dohyeon Lee

Postdoctoral researcher at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) since March 2026.

My research interests include information retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, LLM-based agents, and agentic memory.

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Education & Experience

Experience

KAIST - Postdoctoral Researcher

NAVER Corp. - Research Intern

Research title: Sparse-Dense Hybrid Retrieval.

Mentor: Sunghyun Park, Ph.D.

Education

Seoul National University - Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

Advisor: Prof. Seung-won Hwang.

Doctoral dissertation: Feedback-Driven Alignment Framework for Robust Retrieval Agents in Unseen Domains.

Yonsei University - M.S. in Computer Science

Advisor: Prof. Seung-won Hwang.

Master's thesis: Orthogonal Disentanglement of Semantic and Symbolic Representation for Query-Document Matching.

Yonsei University - B.S. in Computer Science

GPA: 4.06 / 4.5.

Research

I aim to build reliable information-seeking agents that adapt to unfamiliar domains and improve through accumulated experience.

Robust Information-Seeking Agents

I study how agents select retrieval actions, refine queries, and use test-time reasoning to answer complex questions with external evidence.

Hybrid Retrieval and RAG

I combine corpus-level statistics and complementary sparse and dense retrieval signals to improve data generation and retrieval-augmented generation.

Feedback-Driven Adaptation

I investigate how retrieval-state feedback and evidence quality can guide alignment and zero-shot adaptation to unseen domains.

Agentic Memory

I study how to generate memories from past trajectories, retrieve and update them for future tasks, and manage them under practical inference constraints.

Publications 17 papers

Beyond Markovian Forgetfulness: Episodic Memory for Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval

Dohyeon Lee, Yeonseok Jeong, and Seung-won Hwang.

D3: Dynamic Docid Decoding for Multi-Intent Generative Retrieval

Jaeyoung Kim*, Dohyeon Lee*, Soona Hong*, and Seung-won Hwang.

From Token to Action: State Machine Reasoning to Mitigate Overthinking in Information Retrieval

Dohyeon Lee, Yeonseok Jeong, and Seung-won Hwang.

ECoRAG: Evidentiality-guided Compression for Long Context RAG

Yeonseok Jeong, Jinsu Kim, Dohyeon Lee, and Seung-won Hwang.

Query-focused Referentiability Learning for Zero-shot Retrieval

Jaeyoung Kim, Dohyeon Lee, and Seung-won Hwang.

tRAG: Term-level Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Zero-shot Retrieval

Dohyeon Lee, Jongyoon Kim, Jihyuk Kim, Seung-won Hwang, and Joonsuk Park.

Interventional Speech Noise Injection for ASR Generalizable Spoken Language Understanding

YeonJoon Jung, Jaeseong Lee, Seungtaek Choi, Dohyeon Lee, Minsoo Kim, and Seung-won Hwang.

DADA: Distribution-Aware Domain Adaptation of PLMs for Information Retrieval

Dohyeon Lee*, Jongyoon Kim*, Seung-won Hwang, and Joonsuk Park.

HIL: Hybrid Isotropy Learning for Zero-shot Performance in Dense Retrieval

Jaeyoung Kim, Dohyeon Lee, and Seung-won Hwang.

Script-mix: Mixing Scripts for Low-resource Language Parsing

Jaeseong Lee, Dohyeon Lee, and Seung-won Hwang.

Chaining Event Spans for Temporal Relation Grounding

Jongho Kim, Dohyeon Lee, Minsoo Kim, and Seung-won Hwang.

On Complementarity Objectives for Hybrid Retrieval

Dohyeon Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Kyungjae Lee, Seungtaek Choi, and Sunghyun Park.

C2LIR: Continual Cross-lingual Transfer for Low-Resource Information Retrieval

Jaeseong Lee*, Dohyeon Lee*, Jongho Kim, and Seung-won Hwang.

Script, Language, Labels: Overcoming Three Discrepancies for Low-Resource Language Specialization

Jaeseong Lee, Dohyeon Lee, and Seung-won Hwang.

PLM-based World Models for Text-based Games

Minsoo Kim, Yeonjoon Jung, Dohyeon Lee, and Seung-won Hwang.

Robustifying Multi-hop QA through Pseudo-Evidentiality Training

Kyungjae Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Sang-eun Han, and Dohyeon Lee.

SCOPA: Soft Code-Switching, Pairwise Alignment for Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer

Dohyeon Lee*, Jaeseong Lee*, Gyewon Lee, Byung-Gon Chun, and Seung-won Hwang.

Academic Service

Area Chair

Honors & Awards

BK21+ Outstanding Research Fellowship

Computer Science Department Scholarship

Computer Science Department Scholarship