Curriculum Vitae · last updated Feb 2026

Mingyu Lee

Education

Seoul National University

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering; Double major in Mathematical Sciences
Seoul, Korea
  • GPA: 4.05/4.30, Major GPA: 4.05/4.30
Mar 2021 — Present

Gyeonggi Science High School for the Gifted

Computer Science
Suwon, Korea
Mar 2018 — Feb 2021

Research Experience

Research Institute of Mathematics, Seoul National University

Undergraduate Researcher
Seoul, Korea
  • Exploring quantum machine learning and quantum generative models, adapting techniques from classical neural networks.
Jul 2022 — Present

Work Experience

Republic of Korea Air Force

Mandatory Military Service
Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Feb 2024 — Nov 2025

NCSOFT

Research Intern
Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
  • Developed an AI-based exchange traded fund (ETF) management system.
Jul 2023 — Aug 2023

Seoul National University

Teaching Assistant
Seoul, Korea
  • Teaching assistant for discrete mathematics.
Mar 2022 — Jun 2022

Rainbow Brain, Inc.

Internship
Seoul, Korea
  • Collected e-commerce data and provided analysis.
Jan 2022 — Mar 2022

Awards & Achievements

2025 ICPC Seoul Regional

Bronze prize (8th); President’s Award of NIA
Nov 2025

2023 ICPC Seoul Regional

Encouragement prize (14th); Director's award of NIA
Nov 2023

2023 UCPC Final Round

7th place
Jul 2023

2023 Quantum Hackathon Korea

1st place; Ministry of Science and ICT Minister's Award
Jun 2023

WorldQuant Brain

Research consultant
Apr 2023

QHack

Certificate of achievement (advanced)
Feb 2023

Xanadu QHack Coding Challenges

Power-Up Awards (IBM Quantum/PINQ2, NVIDIA/Cyxtera/Run:AI)
Feb 2023

Samsung Collegiate Programming Cup (SCPC)

5th prize
Sep 2022

Samsung Humantech Paper Award

Bronze prize for “Improving Performance of Pyramid CNN used in Image Deblurring (2020)”
Jul 2021

Honors

Korea–U.S. Advanced Industries Youth Exchange Scholarship, 4th Cohort

Nov 2025 — Present

Seoul National University Semiconductor Characterization College Scholarship

Feb 2024 — Present

Young Engineers Honor Society (YEHS), The National Academy of Engineering of Korea

Nov 2023 — Present

Samsung Software Membership

Oct 2022 — Present

The Presidential Science Scholarship (Computer Science)

Mar 2022 — Present

Publications

Scientific Reports

Mutual information maximizing quantum generative adversarial networks
  • Authors: M. Lee, M. Shin, J. Lee, K. Jeong. Scientific Reports 15(1), 32835.
2025

Physical Review A

Disentangling quantum neural networks for unified estimation of quantum entropies and distance measures
  • Authors: M. Shin, S. Lee, J. Lee, M. Lee, D. Ji, H. Yeo, K. Jeong. Physical Review A 110, 062418.
2024

Preprint

Improving Performance of Pyramid CNN used in Image Deblurring
  • Author: Mingyu Lee.
2020

Contributed Talks

2nd CQNC Winter Kick-off Workshop

Mutual Information Maximizing Quantum Generative Adversarial Network and Its Applications (Speaker)
Dec 2023

KSIAM 2023 Annual Meeting

Mutual Information Maximizing Quantum Generative Adversarial Network and Its Applications (Speaker)
Nov 2023

Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers Autumn Annual Conference

Proposing a Transformer-based ETF portfolio for liquidity providers (Co-author)
Nov 2023

1st CQNC Winter Kick-off Workshop

Introduction to Shadow Tomography and Its Application (Speaker)
Jan 2023

Invited Talks

Quantum FinTech Webinars Series, Rethinc. Labs, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Mutual Information Maximizing Quantum Generative Adversarial Network and Its Applications in Finance (Speaker)
Nov 2023

Poster Presentations

27th Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2024)

Mutual Information Maximizing Quantum Generative Adversarial Network and Its Applications
2024

Skills & Qualifications

Programming

Advanced
  • C/C++, Python

Programming

Basic
  • MATLAB, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, R

Algorithms & Problem Solving

  • {"Codeforces Master (rating 2177, max 2279) — handle"=>"red1108"}
  • {"AtCoder 1 Kyu (rating 1915, max 1929) — handle"=>"red1108"}

Interests

Quantum computation and quantum information

Quantitative research and trading

Machine learning and its applications