Kangneoung Lee

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Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea 06772

Hello, I’m Kangneoung Lee. I am a senior robotics engineer at LG Electronics in Seoul. I finishd my Ph.D degree in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University.

My research interests are

  • Robotics
  • Uncertainty estimation and interpretability of machine learning
  • Path planning for single and multi-robot system
  • SLAM and state estimation

I am advised by Dr. Kiju Lee.

news

Jul 22, 2024 “I joined CTO, LG Electronics in Seoul.”
Feb 8, 2024 “I passed Defense for my Ph.D”
Apr 27, 2023 “I will be joining Tesla in Austin, TX as an intern this summer!”
Aug 27, 2022 “I served as a staff member for YGF (Young Genenration Forum) hosted by KSEA (Korean-American Scientists and Engineering Assoication)”
Aug 15, 2022 “I passed Preliminary Exam for my Ph.D. degree”

Educations

Texas A&M University       Aug. 2020 - May. 2024
Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering
SungKyunKwan University       Sep. 2015 - Feb. 2017
MS in Mechanical Engineering (advised by Emeritus Prof. Hyunsoo Kim)
Thesis : Development of Clutch Control for Torque Vectoring Differential to Enhance Vehicle Handling Performance
SungKyunKwan University       Mar. 2010 - Aug. 2015
BS in Mechanical Engineering
Summa Cum Laude (1/264)

Work Experience

LG Electronics in Seoul, South Korea.       July. 2024 -
Senior robotics engineer, developing LiDAR SLAM and navigation algorithm for mobile robot.
Keyword : SLAM, LiDAR, Diffusion model, Path planning
Tesla in Austin, TX.       May. 2023 - Aug. 2023
Engineering intern, developing machine learning models for image classification and decision making.
Keyword : Image processing, Machine learning, Vision inspection for battery cell
Mando Corporation in Seongnam, Korea.       Jan. 2017 - June. 2020
Research Engineer, developing the embedded algorithm for automotive system.
Keyword : Vehicle dynamics, Lateral dynamics control, State estimation, Embedded software, Software engineering

Latest publications

  1. Vision-based Ascending Staircase Detection with Interpretable Classification Model for Stair Climbing Robots
    Lee, Kangneoung, Kalyanram, Vishnu, Zheng, Chuanqi, Sane, Siddharth, and Lee, Kiju
    In 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022
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  2. a-WaLTR: Adaptive Wheel-and-Leg Transformable Robot for Versatile Multiterrain Locomotion
    Zheng, Chuanqi, Sane, Siddharth, Lee, Kangneoung, Kalyanram, Vishnu, and Lee, Kiju
    2023
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  3. Adaptive Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation With Agent Dropout and Reinsertion for Multi-Agent Non-Convex Area Coverage
    Lee, Kangneoung, and Lee, Kiju
    2024
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  4. Terrain-Aware Path Planning via Semantic Segmentation and Uncertainty Rejection Filter with Adversarial Noise for Mobile Robots
    Lee, Kangneoung, and Lee, Kiju
    2024
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  5. Autonomous Field Navigation of Mobile Robots for Agricultural Crop Monitoring
    Wei, Yuan, Lee, Kangneoung, and Lee, Kiju
    In 2024 21th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robot (UR) 2024
  6. Decentralized Multi-Robot Coverage Control via Self-Dropout and Voronoi Tessellation, In review
    Lee, Kangneoung, and Lee, Kiju
    2024
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