Members

Alex Junho Lee (이준호 / 李俊昊)

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering (Mar. 2025 ~ Present)

Google Scholar: Link

ORCID: 0000-0001-5638-7417

Education

• Feb. 2023 - Doctoral Degree (Ph. D.)

Robotics Program, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Thesis: Robust Localization Under Appearance Changes With Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion

• Feb. 2017 - Bachelor's Degree

Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Double-Major: Business and Technology Management (BTM)

Employment History

• 2025.03 ~ Present: Assistant Professor, Sookmyung Women's University

• 2023.02 ~ 2025.02: Senior Research Engineer, Robotics LAB, Hyundai Motor Company

Awards

• 최우수상 (상금 100만원), 2025 SMU EDU Expo 캡스톤디자인경진대회 (지도교수, 팀명 MechX), Dec. 18, 2025

• 최우수상 (상금 100만원), 2025 SMU EDU Expo 캡스톤디자인경진대회 (지도교수, 팀명 Combeenation), Dec. 18, 2025

• 2025 Outstanding Young Researcher (우수신진연구자상), ICCAS, Nov. 06, 2025

• 2024 Outstanding Early Career Researcher (우수신진연구자상), 제어로봇시스템학회 (ICROS), Jul. 03, 2024

• 2nd CASH Prize (USD 3,000) in Academia, HILTI SLAM Challenge, Future of Construction Workshop, IEEE Int’l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, USA, May 23-27, 2022.

• Best Poster Presentation, Dataset Generation and Benchmarking of SLAM Algorithms for Robotics and VR/AR Workshop, IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, May 20-24, 2019.

Professional Activities

• Editor - IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2025

• Guest Editor - International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS), 2025

• Session Co-Chair, Localization II, IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, Sep. 27 - Oct. 1, 2021.

• Selected Reviewers of:

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV)

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS)

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)

Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics (JIST)

• Instructor, KAIST Global Center for Gifted Children, Mar. 2015 - Dec. 2018.

Lectures

• Mechanism Design, Spring 2026

• Engineering Mathmatics, Spring 2026

• Mechanism Design, Spring 2025

• CAD & 3D Printing (Adventure Design), Fall 2025

• Graduate Numerical Analysis, Fall 2025

Interviews

• 로봇신문 '젊은 로봇 공학자' [link]