Joel Lee

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Hello everyone!

I’m a Robotics Research Engineer working on AI systems that help robots act more safely and reliably in the physical world. My goal is to make robots easier for people to use in everyday life by combining Robotics with LLMs (or VLMs).

My research bridges the gap between academic robotics and real-world applications through two key approaches: (1) enhancing physical reliability using simulation-to-real transfer and (2) improving contextual understanding via Large Language Models. It enables robots to perform complex manipulation tasks while maintaining safety and user interpretability (i.e., commonsense).

I completed my M.S. in Artificial Intelligence at Korea University under the supervision of Sungjoon Choi. During my academic journey, I also gained valuable experience in reinforcement learning for robot navigation at KAIST MDI Lab, where I worked on various robotics and computer vision projects.

Research Topic:
  • Physics-based Robot Control and Simulation
  • LLM-driven Robotics (e.g, VLA)
  • Multimodal Perception and Reasoning (Vision, Language, Audio)
  • Human-Robot Interaction and Preference Learning

publications

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    Quality-Diversity based Semi-Autonomous Teleoperation using Reinforcement Learning
    Sangbeom Park ,  Taerim Yoon ,  Joonhyung Lee , and 2 more authors
    Neural Networks, 2024
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    Visual Preference Inference: An Image Sequence-Based Preference Reasoning in Tabletop Object Manipulation
    Joonhyung Lee ,  Sangbeom Park ,  Yongin Kwon , and 3 more authors
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
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    SPOTS: Stable Placement of Objects with Reasoning in Semi-Autonomous Teleoperation Systems
    Joonhyung Lee ,  Sangbeom Park ,  Jeongeun Park , and 2 more authors
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
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    CLARA: Classifying and Disambiguating User Commands for Reliable Interactive Robotic Agents
    Jeongeun Park ,  Seungwon Lim ,  Joonhyung Lee , and 4 more authors
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023
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    Robust Detection for Autonomous Elevator Boarding Using a Mobile Manipulator
    Seungyoun Shin ,  Joonhyung Lee ,  Junhyug Noh , and 1 more author
    Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR), 2023