Hung-yi Lee
Professor, National Taiwan University
About
Hung-yi Lee (李宏毅) is a professor at National Taiwan University's Department of Electrical Engineering with a joint appointment in Computer Science & Information Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. from NTU in 2012, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Academia Sinica and a visiting scientist position at MIT CSAIL. His research focuses on machine learning, speech processing, and human-machine interaction. He is widely known across the Chinese-speaking world for his free YouTube lecture series on machine learning and generative AI, which have attracted millions of views and earned him the nickname 'the Pokémon Master of ML' for his use of anime examples to explain complex concepts.
Key Contributions
- Created one of the most popular free ML lecture series in Chinese with millions of YouTube views
- Research in speech processing, unsupervised ASR, and spoken language understanding
- Pioneered accessible ML education using anime and pop culture analogies
- Contributions to reinforcement learning for interactive retrieval and chatbot systems
- Developed curriculum bridging generative AI and traditional machine learning at NTU
Videos & Interviews
【生成式AI時代下的機器學習(2025)】第一講：一堂課搞懂生成式人工智慧的技術突破與未來發展
2025 ML course opening lecture covering breakthroughs and future directions in generative AI
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ChatGPT 原理剖析 (1/3) — 對 ChatGPT 的常見誤解
First part of a three-part series dissecting how ChatGPT works and addressing common misconceptions
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【生成式AI】速覽圖像生成常見模型
Overview of common image generation models in the generative AI landscape
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