Dongheui Lee (38), Professor for Dynamic Human-Robot Interaction at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has been granted a highly sought-after Helmholtz professorship. Nation-wide, only six of these professorships have been awarded in 2015. This support, amounting to one million euros, strengthen’s TUM’s robotics research in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen.
A native of Korea, Dongheui Lee focuses on machine learning for robotics. She investigates how robots can learn independently from observing sequences of movements and everyday activities - for example, by copying the motions of humans. ...
