Seong-Min Lee

Positions

• Assistant Professor (Dept. of Robotics and Mechatronics Eng., Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)) (Sep. 2025 ~ present)

• Assistant Professor (Dept. of Mechanical Systems Eng., Jeju National University) (Sep. 2023 ~ Aug. 2025)

• Research Assistant Professor (Dept. of Mechanical Eng., UNIST) (Mar. 2023 ~ Aug. 2023)

• Postdoctoral Research Associate (Dept. of Mechanical Eng., UNIST) (Sep. 2021 ~ Feb. 2023)

Education

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, UNIST (Aug. 2021)

- Dissertation: Development of Spherical Motion Platform for Future Demands: Virtual Reality and Mobility (Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award)

- Research Advisor: Prof. Hungsun Son

• B.S. in Mechanical System Design and Manufacturing & Thermo-Fluid and Power Engineering, UNIST (Feb. 2015)

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Young Researcher Award, ICROS (2025 제 40회 제어로봇시스템학회 학술대회), 2025

• Outstanding Advisor Award, Jeju National University, 2024

• Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS) (at ICCAS 2024), 2024

• Outstanding Paper Presentation Award, The Society for Aerospace System Engineering, 2023

• Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award, UNIST, 2022

• Korean Government Minister Award, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, 2015

Academic Activities
- Editor

• International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems (ICCAS), 2024 (associate editor)

- Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

• IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

• Mechatronics, Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

• Robotica

• International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications

• IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)

Invited talk 

• Research for Mechanism, Control, and Human Factors Analysis of a Multi-DOF Spherical Motion Platform (ICROS 2025)

• Prediction-Based Control For Mechatronics and Virtual Reality With Time Delay (ICCAS 2024)