The Future of Reasoning AI & AI Agents

Lee Moon-tae is Head of the Superintelligence Lab at LG AI Research and a faculty member in Information and Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago. His journey with Large Language Models (LLMs) began in 2019 as an invited scholar at Microsoft Research Redmond, where he launched the ambitious Universal Language Modeling project. His research spans planning, reasoning, and evaluation for text and code generation models. He currently leads the EXAONE Data Foundry, a large-scale platform for generating instruction-tuning and RL alignment data to advance Large Reasoning Models and domain-specific agent systems. He received the Social Impact Award at NAACL 2024 and the Best Paper Award at NAACL 2025.