Short CV
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.
Selected Awards
- 2009, Finalist for the “KUKA Service Robotics Best Paper Award” at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation for the paper “Mimetic Communication with Impedance Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction”, D. Lee, Ch. Ott and Y. Nakamura.
- 2007, Grant Awardee for IEEE-RAS / IFRR School of Robotics Science on Learning, Lazise, Italy
- 2006-2007, Hirose Scholarship Awardee, Japan
- 2005-2006, KRF (Korea Research Foundation) Grant Awardee
- 2005, Best mimetic Award from International School of Robotics Science (ISRS)
- 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)
- 2004-2005, KOSEF (Korea Science and Engineering Foundation) Grant Awardee
- 2004-2005, MEXT Grant Awardee, JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization)
- 2004, 1st Position Price Award Rescue Robot League Competition, RoboCup2004
- 2000-2001, Overseas Research Survey Project Grant Awardee for the research survey on “Environmental Oriented Villages in Europe”, Kyung Hee University
- 1996-2000, Scholarship 11 times from Kyung Hee University
Research Interests
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.
Selected Publications
- Lee, Dongheui; Ott, Christian: Incremental kinesthetic teaching of motion primitives using the motion refinement tube. Autonomous Robots 31 (2-3), 2011, 115-131.
- Medina-Hernández, J.R.; Lawitzky, M.; Mörtl, A.; Lee, D.; Hirche, S.: An Experience-Driven Robotic Assistamt Acquiring Human Knowledge to Impruve Haptic Cooperation. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011.
- Lee, D.; Ott, C.; Nakamura, Y.: Mimetic Communication Model with Compliant Physical Contact in Human--Humanoid Interaction. The International Journal of Robotics Research 29 (13), 2010, 1684-1704.
- Lee, D.; Nakamura, Y.: Mimesis Model from Partial Observations for a Humanoid Robot. The International Journal of Robotics Research 29 (1), 2009, 60-80.
- Kunori, H.; Lee, D.; Nakamura, Y.: Associating and Reshaping of Whole Body Motions for Object Manipulation. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09), 2009.
- Kulic, D.; Lee, D.; Ott, C.; Nakamura, Y.: Incremental Learning of Full Body Motion Primitives for Humanoid Robots. Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS'08), 2008.
- Kulic, D.; Lee, D.: Motion Capturing from Monocular Vision by Statistical Inference Based on Motion Database: Vector Field Approach. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'07), 2007.
- Lee, D.; Chung, W.: Discrete-Status-Based Localization for Indoor Service Robots. IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron. 53 (5), 2006, 1737-1746.
Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow