- Associate Professor, Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution and Mechanical Engineering
- Multidisciplinary Engineering Technology
- Charlotte & Walter Buchanan Faculty Fellow
- Joint Faculty in: Mechanical Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-6479
- Email: kiju.lee@tamu.edu
- Office: FERM 005B | MEOB 219
- Website: Adaptive Robotics and Technology Lab

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University – 2008
- M.S.E., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University – 2006
- B.S.E., Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Chung-Ang University – 2002
Research Interests
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- Robotics
- Swarm Intelligence
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Novel Mechanism Design
- Tangible Serious Games
Selected Publications
- X. Liu, X. Cheng, and K. Lee (2020). “Facial Emotion Recognition based on Geometric Facial Features and GA-SVM-based Classification,” IEEE Sensors. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3028075
- K. Lee, Y. Wang, and C. Zheng (2020). “TWISTER Hand: Soft Robotic Hand based on Origami-Inspired Mechanism,” IEEE Transaction on Robotics, DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2019.2956870
- C. Zheng and K. Lee, “Passive Geared Wheel-Leg Transformable Mechanism and Robot Embodiment,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, May 20-24, 2019, DOI: 10.119/ICRA.2019.8793686
- T. Liu, Y. Wang, and K. Lee (2018). “Three-Dimensional Printable Origami Twisted Tower: Design, Fabrication, and Robot Embodiment,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 116-123, DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2017.2733626
- K. Lee, D. Jeong, R. Schindler, L. Hlavaty, S. Gross, and E. J. Short (2018). “Tangible Interactive Games for Cognitive Assessment of Young Children: Design and Preliminary Evaluation,” Frontiers in Pediatrics, 6: 111, DOI: 10.3389/fped.2018.00111