© Tiss. Dongheui Lee

Univ.Prof. Dongheui Lee, PhD was appointed as University professor for Autonomous Systems at TU Wien with effect from 1 April 2022. She is assigned to the Institute of Computer Technology, opens an external URL in a new window (E384) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, opens an external URL in a new window.

Dongheui Lee was born in Gimcheon (S-Korea). She studied Mechanical Engineering at Kyung Hee University in Seoul (S-Korea) and graduated in 2003 with an M.S. Until 2004 she was also employed as a researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). In 2004 she moved to the University of Tokyo in Japan, where she received her doctorate in 2007 on the topic “Statistical Mimesis from Partial Observation and its Application to Humanoid Robots”, opens an external URL in a new window. She then continued to work as an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo. In 2009 there was another move, this time to Europe, to the Technical University of Munich (TUM, Germany), again in the position of Junior Professor (Assistant Prof.) for "Dynamic-Human-Robot-Interaction for Automation Systems". She has been an associate professor there since 2017, as well as a group leader at the Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics at the DLR (German Aerospace Center) in Munich.

Dongheui Lee is Head of the Research Unit of Autonomous Systems, opens an external URL in a new window (E384-03). She deals with topics such as "Human-Robot Collaboration" and "Machine Learning for (Humanoid) Robots".

Publications by Dongheui Lee in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.