Publications

2026

Seoyeon Jang, Alex Junho Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Hyun Myung

Chamelion: Reliable Change Detection for Long-Term LiDAR Mapping in Transient Environments

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 4361–4368

2024

Seungwon Song, Hyungtae Lim, Alex Junho Lee, Hyun Myung

DynaVINS++: Robust Visual-Inertial State Estimator in Dynamic Environments by Adaptive Truncated Least Squares and Stable State Recovery

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 9127–9134

2023

Alex Junho Lee, Wonho Song, Byeongho Yu, Duckyu Choi, Christian Tirtawardhana, Hyun Myung

Survey of robotics technologies for civil infrastructure inspection

Journal of Infrastructure Intelligence and Resilience, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 100018

Ung Hyun Ko, Jinseung Choung, Alex Junho Lee, Suk-Hee Park, Jennifer H. Shin

Surface tension-induced biomimetic assembly of cell-laden fibrous bundle construct for muscle tissue engineering

Biomedical Materials, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 055031

2022

Seungwon Song, Hyungtae Lim, Alex Junho Lee, Hyun Myung

DynaVINS: A Visual-Inertial SLAM for Dynamic Environments

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 11523–11530

Alex Junho Lee, Younggun Cho, Young-sik Shin, Ayoung Kim, Hyun Myung

ViViD++: Vision for Visibility Dataset

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 6282–6289

Alex Junho Lee, Hyun Myung

Natural Language Representation as Features for Place Recognition

Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), pp. 284–287

Alex Junho Lee, Hyungtae Lim, Minho Oh, Wonho Song, Hyun Myung

Volumetric Vegetation Monitoring from LiDAR Scans with Ground Estimation

Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), pp. 1378–1379

Alex Junho Lee, Younggun Cho, Hyun Myung

Low-cost Thermal Mapping for Concrete Heat Monitoring

Future of Construction Workshop at ICRA 2022, pp. 20–23

Sumin Hu, Yeeun Kim, Hyungtae Lim, Alex Junho Lee, Hyun Myung

eCDT: Event clustering for simultaneous feature detection and tracking

Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 3808–3815

2021

Alex Junho Lee, Ayoung Kim

EventVLAD: Visual Place Recognition with Reconstructed Edges from Event Cameras

Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 2247–2252

2017

Alex Junho Lee, Ayoung Kim

Event-based real-time optical flow estimation

Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), pp. 787–791

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Professional Activities

Education

2023.02 Ph.D., Robotics Program, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Thesis: Robust Localization Under Appearance Changes With Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion
2017.02 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, KAIST Double-Major: Business and Technology Management (BTM)

Experience

2025.03 – PresentAssistant Professor, Sookmyung Women's University
2023.02 – 2025.02Senior Research Engineer, Robotics Lab, Hyundai Motor Company

Research Projects

2026미지 복잡환경 내 정밀 3차원 복원을 위한 탐사 기법 개발 숙명여자대학교
2026하수관로 맵핑 시스템 개발을 위한 측위 시스템 및 소프트웨어 통합 용역
2025대규모 환경에서의 자율 로봇 운용을 위한 위치인식 기법 연구 숙명여자대학교
2025창의적자산 실용화지원사업 (BRIDGE 3.0) 숙명여자대학교 산학협력단
2022데이터 정합 및 Calibration에 관한 기술이전 베어로보틱스코리아
2022Robust (visual) place recognition for location authentication 중소벤처기업부
2021–2022Last-mile delivery robot in a crowded urban area 산업통상자원부
2021전장상황에서의 자율비행 기술경진대회 국방부
2019–2020Long-term mapping of unstructured outdoor environment 국토교통부
2019Indoor SLAM in crowded indoor environments 과학기술정보통신부
2018Indoor SLAM under complex disaster 산업통상자원부

Awards

Dec 2025최우수상 (상금 100만원), 2025 SMU EDU Expo 캡스톤디자인경진대회 — 지도교수, 팀 MechX
Dec 2025최우수상 (상금 100만원), 2025 SMU EDU Expo 캡스톤디자인경진대회 — 지도교수, 팀 Combeenation
Nov 20252025 Outstanding Young Researcher (우수신진연구자상), ICCAS
Jul 20242024 Outstanding Early Career Researcher (우수신진연구자상), 제어로봇시스템학회 (ICROS)
May 20222nd CASH Prize (USD 3,000) in Academia, HILTI SLAM Challenge — Future of Construction Workshop, ICRA, Philadelphia
May 2019Best Poster Presentation — Dataset Generation and Benchmarking of SLAM Algorithms for Robotics and VR/AR Workshop, ICRA, Montreal

Patents

2026 (출원)비상 상황 시 링크 기구를 이용하여 한 쌍의 도어를 동기적으로 개방 및 정렬시키는 도어 제어 알고리즘 제공 방법 및 그 장치 출원 10-2026-0060451
2026 (출원)비상 상황 시 회전 구조로부터 직선형 개방 통로 구조로 전환 가능한 가변형 회전문 장치 및 그 제어 방법 출원 10-2026-0060452
2019 (등록)엔코더 프레임 장치 및 이를 이용한 차량 위치 측정 시스템 등록 10-1994339
2012 (등록)과학 실험용 인쇄장치 등록 10-1207607

Teaching

Mechanism Design Spring 2026Spring 2025
Engineering Mathematics Spring 2026
CAD & 3D Printing Fall 2025
Graduate Numerical Analysis Fall 2025

Service

Editor

IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2025 & 2026

Guest Editor

International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS), 2025

Session Chair

Session Co-Chair, Localization II — IEEE/RSJ IROS, Prague, 2021

Reviewer

IEEE T-IV · T-ASE · RA-L · RAS · ICRA · IROS · UR · JIST

Outreach

Instructor, KAIST Global Center for Gifted Children, Mar. 2015 – Dec. 2018

Articles & Interviews

Interview로봇신문 — '젊은 로봇 공학자'
2022건축물 진단을 위한 안전 로봇 기술 동향 — ICROS 9월호
2021지능로보틱스분야 기술혁신위원회 보고서
20174차산업혁명과 자율주행 보고서