Johnny MyungWon Lee
Visiting Research Scholar
North Carolina State University, Prof. Brian J. Reich @ Raleigh, North Carolina, United States (Apr-Jul 2025)
Seminar Organisation
Organiser of Reading Group and Workshops @ the Glasgow-Edinburgh Extremes Network (2024-Present)
  • Details of the meeting can be found here.
Organiser of Group Seminar Series @ Statistical Intelligence Laboratory (2024-Present)
  • Gianmarco Callegher (University of Göttingen) - Joint and Marginal Effect Selection via Spike-and-Slab Splines in Multivariate Extreme Models for Bulk and Tail. (23rd Apr 2025)
  • Johnny Myung Won Lee (University of Edinburgh) - Bayesian Kolmogorov-Arnold Neural Network (9th Apr 2025)
  • Judith Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China) - Awareness of Reinforcement Learning Agents in an Uncertain Environment (2nd Apr 2025)
  • Jordan Richards (University of Edinburgh) - Heavy-tailed density regression using SPQR and the blended generalised Pareto distribution (26th Mar 2025)
  • Andrej Svetlošák (University of Edinburgh) - Kolmogorov-Lorentz-Arnold Networks (KLAN): Investigation and Preliminary Results (12th Mar 2025)
  • Linlu Zhao (University of Edinburgh) - An Introduction to Stochastic Neighbor Embedding and Its Possible Role in Multivariate Extreme Value Theory. (26th Feb 2025)
  • William Wu (University of Edinburgh) - Posterior Sampling from Large Language Model (12th Feb 2025)
  • Xutian Yao (Kings College London) - Relative Hazard Modelling of Joint Extremes (8th Jan 2025)
  • Clemente Ferrer (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María) - Is the effective sample size always less than the sample size? A spatial regression approach (11th Dec 2024)
  • Judith Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China) - Reinforcement Learning and Mechanism Design (13th Nov 2024)
  • Johnny Myung Won Lee (University of Edinburgh) - Extended Tail Index Regression (10th Oct 2024)
Co-organiser of Postgraduate Colloquium @ School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh (2023-Present)
  • Nikos Makras (University of Edinburgh) - Taming the Interacting Particle Langevin Algorithm - The Superlinear Case (13th Nov 2024, a joint collaboration seminar with School of Mathematics and Edinburgh Bayes Coffee House)
  • Further details of the seminar series can be found here.
Co-organiser of Career Development Seminar Series @ Edinburgh Korean Postgraduate & Researcher Association
  • Myung Won Lee (University of Edinburgh) - Workshop for Academic Website (18th Apr 2025)
  • Jiwon Song (University of Edinburgh) - Academic Researcher in the UK (15th Mar 2025, a joint collaboration seminar with KRUK and KUAS)
Conference Organisation
Leadership Roles
    Edinburgh Local Group Committee @ Royal Statistical Society (2025-Present)
    Committee Member of the Advisory Board & Scotland Representative @ Korean Researchers in the UK (2024-Present)
    Postgraduate Representative & Webmaster @ School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh (2023-2025)
    President @ Edinburgh Korean Postgraduate & Researcher Association (2022-2024)