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DONGJUN LEE

Education

  • Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, May 2004

  • M.S. Automation & Design, KAIST, Seoul, Korea, February 1997

  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, February 1995

Employment

  • Director, SNU Future Mobility Technology Center (FMTC) 

  • Coordinator, SNU-Samsung Electronics Robotics Education Track (SSRT)

  • Full Professor, Dept. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, SNU, 2018/9-

  • Visiting Professor, Samsung Research, Seoul, Korea, 2022/08-2023/1

  • Visiting Professor, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2022/01-2022/06

  • Associate Professor, Dept. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, SNU, 2013/9-2018/8

  • Visiting Professor, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, 2015/10-2015/12

  • Assistant Professor, Dept. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, SNU, 2011/8-2013/8

  • Assistant Professor, Dept. Mech., Aero., & Biomed. Eng., U. Tennessee-Knoxville, 2006/7-2011/6

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Coordinated Science Lab, UIUC, 2004/1-2006/6

  • Engine Development Engineer, Central R&D Center, KIA Motors, Korea, 1997/1-1999/5

Research Interests

  • Robot Mechanics & Control; Telerobotics/Haptics/VR; Aerial Robots & Manipulation; Autonomous Mobility; Industrial Control Applications

Awards/Honors

  • SNU Excellence in Research Award 2023

  • Best Paper Award Finalist on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, ICRA 2024

  • Achievement Award, KROS 2022

  • Best Paper Award, KRoC 2020

  • Best Paper Award Finalist on Manipulation, ICRA 2021

  • Outstanding Paper Award, ICROS 2017, 2019, KRoC 2019

  • Outstanding Video Award, KRoC 2017, 2018

  • Best Demo Award, Korea Haptics Workshop 2017

  • Best Video Award, Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Robots & Ambient Intelligence (URAI), Oct. 2013.

  • Best Paper Award, Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), June 2012

  • US National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2009

  • Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2002-2003

Services

  • Journal Editorial Board

​Senior Editor, International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2023-

Senior Editor, International Journal of Control, Automation & Systems (IJCAS), 2023-

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Haptics 2019-​​2022

Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters, 2018-2020

Associate Editor, International Journal of Control, Automation & Systems, 2018-

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, June 2010 - July 2014

Deputy Editor, Journal of Korea Robotics Society (in Korean), 2016 - 2018

Guest Editor, Autonomous Robots, RSS 2015 Special Issue (w/ D. Hsu & J. Neira)

Guest Editor, IJRR, RSS 2015 Special Issue (w/ J. Neira & D. Hsu)

Advanced Robotics, Special Issue on "New Horizons in Telerobotics for Real-Life Applications"

  • Conference Committee

Editor: IEEE ICRA Conference Editorial Board 2015, 2016, 2017​, 2021-

Editor-in-Chief: Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2020-2022

Area Chair: RSS 2015

Co-Chair: IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Telerobotics, 2012-2016

Program Committee:

RSS 2009, 2014, 2017; IEEE CDC 2010; DARS 2014; URA 2017

Associate Editor:

IEEE ICRA 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014; IEEE/RSJ IROS 2008, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2017

WHC 2017; IEEE CCTA 2017

  • Society Service

Multimedia Editor, Springer Handbook of Robotics (2nd ed.)​

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