Stefan Lee

Stefan Lee is an Associate Professor at Oregon State University in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research focuses on agents that can perceive environments, communicate with humans, and coordinate actions to achieve shared goals. This work spans computer vision, natural language processing, and deep learning, with applications in robotics and embodied AI.

• Current Role: Associate Professor, Oregon State (2025–)
• Previous Roles: Assistant Professor (2019–2025), Research Scientist II (2017–2019), Postdoctoral Associate (2016)

Research Interests include:

• Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN)
• Multimodal Learning
• Embodied Artificial Intelligence
• Robotic Perception and Control
• Fairness in AI Systems

Selected Scientific Awards:

• ICLR 2023 Best Paper Award
• EMNLP 2017 Best Short Paper Award
• CVPR 2019 Oral
• CVPR 2018 Oral
• CVPR 2014 Best Paper Award

Advising: Mentors 7 PhD students including Zijiao Yang, Xiangxi Shi, and Abhinav Jain. His publications demonstrate consistent leadership in top-tier conferences like ICCV, CVPR, and NeurIPS.