Professor: Dr. Jaemin Lee

Dr. Lee's research interests span the area of robotics, optimal planning, whole-body control, safety-critical control, autonomy, learning-based control and hybrid dynamical systems, with a special focus on applications to loco-manipulation of legged robots, animaloid, or humanoids with experimental validations, connecting robotic systems and generative AI.

- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North carolina State University, NC
- Associate Faculty, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC–Chapel Hill and NC State University, NC
- Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, CA
- Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, TX

MAE Cources
- Undergraduate: MAE 435 Principles of Automatic Control (Spring)
- Graduate: MAE 589 Fundamentals for Modern Robotics (2025 Fall)
MAE 789 Advanced Planning and Control for Robots (2026 Fall)

Academic Service
- Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (IEEE RA-L), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (IEEE T-RO), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (IEEE RA-L), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), American Control Conference (ACC), Robotica, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Autonomous Robots (AURO), IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics (TIE), IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS)

Graduate Students

JunYoung Kim

JunYoung Kim (MAE)
Whole-body Planning and Control for Humanoids

Jakub Jon

Jakub Jon (ECE)
Perception-based Safe Locomotion

Accelerated B.S/M.S. (ABM) Students

Andrea Basuroski

Andrea Basuroski (MAE)
Transformable Manipulation

Person2

David Alexander (MAE)
Ankle Exoskeleton Robots

B.S. Students

Will Joseph

Will Joseph (MAE)
Design for Actuator and Motion Controller

Daniel Dong

Daniel Dong (CS)
Connecting Robots to LLM

Jaey Kim

Jaey Kim (MAE)
Legged Robots for Jumping

Hanbin Jang

Hanbin Jang (MAE)
Reinforcement Learning of Quadruped Locomotion

Jack Fetkovich

Jack Fetkovich (ECE)
Predictive Navigation and Control


Nicholas Sutton

Nicholas Sutton (CS)
Reasoning and Behavior Model of Humanoids