Sang Wook Lee received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical design and production engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, in 2006.  

From 2006 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.  He is currently a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA, and a Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Research in the MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.  His current research interests include neuromechanics of hand and upper extremity, and rehabilitation of neurologically impaired patients.