CV

Curriculum vitae of Junsoo Lee. A downloadable PDF is available at the top of the page.

Contact Information

Name Junsoo Lee
Professional Title Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Email junsoo.lee@sc.edu
Phone (803) 777-2502
Location 300 Main Street, Room A132, Columbia, South Carolina SC 29208

Professional Summary

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and director of the Dynamics and Control Lab. Research in stability theory, optimal control, and stochastic systems, with application to autonomous and networked systems, multiagent coordination, swarm optimization, and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Experience

  • 2022 - present

    Columbia, SC, USA

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    University of South Carolina
    Director of the Dynamics and Control Lab.
  • 2019 - 2022

    Atlanta, GA, USA

    Graduate Research Assistant, School of Aerospace Engineering
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 2018 - 2019

    Atlanta, GA, USA

    Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Aerospace Engineering
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 2016 - 2018

    Seoul, South Korea

    Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Aerospace Engineering
    Seoul National University

Education

  • 2018 - 2022

    Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ph.D.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Aerospace Engineering
  • 2019 - 2021

    Atlanta, GA, USA

    M.S.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Mathematics
  • 2016 - 2018

    Seoul, South Korea

    M.S.
    Seoul National University
    Aerospace Engineering
  • 2012 - 2016

    Seoul, South Korea

    B.S.
    Seoul National University
    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Teaching

  • Instructor, University of South Carolina — AESP 420: Flight & Orbital Mechanics; AESP 466: Flight Dynamics & Control; EMCH 367: Controls; EMCH 792: Nonlinear Control
  • Teaching Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology — Dynamics and Control Laboratory (2018–2019)
  • Teaching Assistant, Seoul National University — Theory of Flight Vehicle Guidance and Control (2017)

Invited Talks

  • Designing Autonomous Networked Systems — Universidad San Francisco de Quito (online), February 2026
  • Achieving Finite Time Stability — Smart Air Mobility Seminar, Korea Aerospace University (online), July 2024
  • Application of Dynamical System Theory to Stochastic Dynamical Systems — Smart Air Mobility Seminar, Korea Aerospace University (online), July 2023
  • Networked Control Systems: A Dynamical Systems Approach — University of South Carolina Research Seminar Series, Columbia, SC, March 2023
  • Research Outside of Boundary — BC–UofSC exploreCSR 2022–2023, Columbia, SC, February 2023
  • Navigating Graduate School Admissions and Challenges of Academia — KSEA YGNITE, San Jose, CA, January 2023
  • Dynamical Systems Approach on Network Systems — SNU Aerospace Seminar, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, December 2022
  • Dynamical Systems Approach on Network Systems — CNU Aerospace BK21 & Colloquium Series, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, December 2022
  • Dynamical Network Systems: Consensus Problem — Smart Air Mobility Seminar, Korea Aerospace University (online), July 2022

Professional Service

  • Editorial & conference roles — Associate Editor, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2024 & 2023; Session Chair, IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), 2023; Session Co-Chair, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2021
  • Journal reviewing — Automatica; IEEE TAC, L-CSS, TCNS, and TSMC: Systems; SIAM Journal on Control & Optimization; Int. J. of Robust & Nonlinear Control; Int. J. of Control; European Journal of Control; Systems & Control Letters; Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems; and others (20+ journals)
  • Conference & proposal review — IEEE ACC, CDC, and CCTA; AIAA SciTech; NSF review panels (ECCS, FRR, DCSD)
  • Professional memberships — IEEE (Control Systems Society; Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society); SIAM (Activity Groups on Control & Systems Theory and Dynamical Systems); AIAA; ASME; KSEA

Research Interests

  • Stability theory — finite-, fixed-, and semistability of discrete-time, hybrid, and stochastic systems
  • Optimal feedback control and Lyapunov-based design
  • Stochastic systems and control under uncertainty and communication noise
  • Multiagent systems, network consensus, and networked control
  • Swarm robotics and swarm intelligence
  • Robust control
  • Aerial robotics — tethered multirotor UAVs (MUAVs)
  • Autonomous systems and UAVs — long-term missions, motion planning, reinforcement learning, and swarm optimization