Technische Universität München

Dongheui Lee is currently an assistant professor (since October 2009) at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. She is the head of Dynamic Human Robot Interaction for Automation System Lab. She received her B.S. and M.S degree at the department of mechanical engineering, Kyunghee University, Korea, in 2001 and 2003, respectively. She worked as a research scientist at the Advanced Robotics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Korea from 2001 to 2004. In 2007, she received her PhD degree at the department of Mechano‐Informatics, the University of Tokyo, Japan. After receiving PhD degree she joined the center of Information and Robot Technology at the University of Tokyo as a project assistant professor.

Finalist for the “KUKA Service Robotics Best Paper Award” at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2009 for the paper “Mimetic Communication with Impedance Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction”, D. Lee, Ch. Ott and Y. Nakamura.

Grant Awardee for IEEE-RAS / IFRR School of Robotics Science on Learning, Lazise, Italy 2007

Hirose Scholarship Awardee, Japan 2006-2007.

Best mimetic Award from International School of Robotics Science (ISRS), July 2005.

Grant Awardee for International School of Robotics Science (ISRS), University of Tokyo, 2005

University of Tokyo Academic Research Activities Supporting Grant Award for the paper “Probabilistic Model of Whole-body Motion Imitation from Partial Observations” D. Lee and Y. Nakamura, In Proc. of The 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR'05), 2005

KOSEF (Korea Science and Engineering Foundation) Grant Awardee, 2004 - 2005

KRF (Korea Research Foundation) Grant Awardee, 2005 - 2006

MEXT Grant Awardee, JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization), 2004 - 2005

1st Position Price Award Rescue Robot League Competition, RoboCup2004

Scholarship 11 times from Kyung Hee University, 1996 - 2000

Overseas Research Survey Project Grant Awardee for the research survey on “Environmental Oriented Villages in Europe”, Kyung Hee University. Dec., 2000 - Jan. 2001

D. Lee and C. Ott, Incremental Kinesthetic Teaching of Motion Primitives Using the Motion Refinement Tube, Autonomous Robots, 2011.

D. Lee, C. Ott, and Y. Nakamura, Mimetic Communication Model with Compliant Physical Contact in Human‐Humanoid Interaction, The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 29, Issue 13, pp. 1684–1704, 2010.

D. Lee and Y. Nakamura, Mimesis Model from Partial Observations for a Humanoid Robot, The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 29, Issue 1, pp. 60‐80, 2010.

H. Kunori, D. Lee, and Y. Nakamura, Associating and Reshaping of Whole Body Motions for Object Manipulation, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09), pp. 5240‐5247, St. Louis, USA, 2009.

Dana Kulic, Dongheui Lee, Christian Ott and Yoshihiko Nakamura, Incremental Learning of Full Body Motion Primitives for Humanoid Robots, in Proc. 2008 8th IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS'08), pp. 326-332, Daejeon, Korea, Dec 1-3, 2008.

Dongheui Lee and Yoshihiko Nakamura, Motion Capturing from Monocular Vision by Statistical Inference Based on Motion Database: Vector Field Approach, in Proc. 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'07), pp. 617-623, San Diego, USA, Oct 29-Nov 2, 2007.

Dongheui Lee and Woojin Chung, Discrete Status based Localization for Indoor Service Robots, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol.53, No.5, pp. 1737-1746, October 2006.

Dongheui Lee’s research interests include human motion understanding, physical human robot interaction, machine learning in robotics, humanoid robots, human-robot collaboration, probabilistic robotics, motion recognition and tracking, incremental life-long learning mechanism, and mobile robot navigation.