Independent Researcher

Joun Won

Interested in interpretable RL | Co-founder of Open-Age Academia

About

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I am an independent researcher and a student at Haeryong High School.

My research focuses on developing XAI-driven control algorithms and interpreting reinforcement learning policies, with applications to aerospace systems — particularly orbital dynamics. I am broadly interested in making autonomous control systems that are interpretable.

Outside of research, I co-founded Open-Age Academia, after running into the same wall as a high-school researcher. Open-Age Academia exists to make that path clearer for the next person.

  • Explainable AI
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Control Theory
  • Aerospace & Orbital Dynamics

Publications

2026

What Do RL Spacecraft Guidance Policies Learn? Symbolic Distillation against a Known Control Law

Joun Won

NeurIPS 2026 Workshop under review

CV

Awards & Honors

2026
Korean Young Physicists' Tournament (KYPT) — Encouragement Award & Kwon Myeonghui Award, Team Haeryong CASS
2026
KENTECH 3rd Symposium on Sustainable Energy Transition (SSET) — Best Poster Award

Contact

[Feel free to reach out if you'd like to collaborate or just chat about research.]