I am a postdoctoral researcher at Dongguk University, conducting research on physical AI robotics system that naturally interact with the environment and humans. I focus on approaches that enable robots to leverage multimodal physical information for interaction. My research interests lie in Robotics, Robot Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Physical AI. My research goal is to develop robotic systems capable of performing complex and diverse tasks akin to humans, while remaining robust to changes in the surrounding environment.

I received my Ph.D. majoring in Mechanical Engineering from Dongguk University, Korea, advised by Professor Soo-Chul Lim. I also obtained my B.S. and M.S. from the same university. I worked at UC San Diego as a visiting graduate student, collaborating with Professer Xiaolong Wang in 2023.

Publications

Progressive Policy Learning: A Hierarchical Framework for Dexterous Bimanual Manipulation
Kang-Won Lee*, Jung-Woo Lee, Seongyong Kim, Soo-Chul Lim
Mathematics, 13(22), 3585, 2025
DOI: [10.3390/math13223585]
[Paper] [project page] [video]

Latency-Free Driving Scene Prediction for On-Road Teledriving With Future-Image-Generation
Kang-Won Lee*, Dae-Kwan Ko, Yong-Jun Kim, Jee-Hwan Ryu, Soo-Chul Lim
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 16676-16686, 2024
DOI: [10.1109/TITS.2024.3435481]
[Paper] [project page] [video]

DexTouch: Learning to Seek and Manipulate Objects with Tactile Dexterity
Kang-Won Lee*, Yuzhe Qin, Xiaolong Wang, Soo-Chul Lim
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 10772-10779, 2024
DOI: [10.1109/LRA.2024.3478571]
[Paper] [project page] [video]

Robot Synesthesia: In-Hand Manipulation with Visuotactile Sensing
Ying Yuan*, Haichuan Che*, Yuzhe Qin*, Binghao Huang, Zhao-Heng Yin, Kang-Won Lee, Yi Wu, Soo-Chul Lim, Xiaolong Wang
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
[Paper] [project page]

Vision-based interaction force estimation for robot grip motion without tactile/force sensor
Dae-Kwan Ko, Kang-Won Lee, Dong Han Lee, Soo-Chul Lim
Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 211, pp. 118441, 2023
DOI: [10.1016/j.eswa.2022.118441]
[paper]

DeepTouch: Enabling touch interaction in underwater environments by learning touch-induced inertial motions
Kang-Won Lee, Seung-Chan Kim, Soo-Chul Lim
IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 8924-8932, 2022
DOI: [10.1109/JSEN.2022.3163664]
[paper]

Simple and Reliable Position Sense Assessment Under Different External Torques: Toward Developing a Post-Stroke Proprioception Evaluation Device
Kang-Won Lee, Sang Hoon Kang, Soo-Chul Lim
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 30, pp. 823-832, 2022
DOI: [10.1109/TNSRE.2022.3161948]
[paper]

Toward Vision-Based High Sampling Interaction Force Estimation with Master Position and Orientation for Teleoperation
Kang-Won Lee, Dae-Kwan Ko, Soo-Chul Lim
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 6640-6646, 2021
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021 Oral Presentation
DOI: [10.1109/LRA.2021.3094848]
[paper]