Jaemin Lee
Bio
Dr. Jaemin Lee is an Assistant Professor who started in the fall of 2024. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, TX. Before joining the faculty at North Carolina State University, he was a postdoctoral scholar in Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, CA. He also worked as a research scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seoul.
His research interests include nonlinear optimal control and planning, safe and agile whole-body control, hybrid intelligence integrating learning and control, flexible behavioral templates for humanoid and animaloid robotic systems.
His lab focuses on developing innovative hardware of robotic systems, advancing planning and control algorithms using optimization and learning techniques, perception-based reasoning, non-traditional transformable locomotion, and AI with large behavioral models. The ultimate goal is to deploy autonomous robots effectively in unstructured and dynamic environments for real-world applications, leveraging AI to enhance both behavioral and intellectual capabilities.
He is currently NC State Robotics Initiative committee member and continues serving Associate Editor in Robotics Journals and Conferences such as (IEEE RA-L, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, etc.) He has also received an NVIDIA Academic Award in support of his humanoid robotics research.
Publications/Lab websites
Publications
- Safety-Critical Locomotion of Biped Robots in Infeasible Paths: Overcoming Obstacles During Navigation Toward Destination , 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2025)
- A Data-driven Method for Safety-critical Control: Designing Control Barrier Functions from State Constraints , 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) (2024)
- Multi-Domain Walking with Reduced-Order Models of Locomotion , 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) (2024)
- Safety-Critical Coordination of Legged Robots via Layered Controllers and Forward Reachable Set based Control Barrier Functions , 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2024)
- Safety-critical Autonomous Inspection of Distillation Columns using Quadrupedal Robots Equipped with Roller Arms , (2024)
- Safety-critical Control of Quadrupedal Robots with Rolling Arms for Autonomous Inspection of Complex Environments , 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2024)
- Variable Inertia Model Predictive Control for Fast Bipedal Maneuvers , (2024)
- Data-Driven Adaptation for Robust Bipedal Locomotion with Step-to-Step Dynamics , 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2023)
- Hierarchical Relaxation of Safety-critical Controllers: Mitigating Contradictory Safety Conditions with Application to Quadruped Robots , 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2023)
- Real-Time Model Predictive Control for Industrial Manipulators with Singularity-Tolerant Hierarchical Task Control , 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2023)