Kyoungmin Lee is a vice president and seasoned technical leader with 13 years of experience specializing in deep learning perception for autonomous vehicles, multimedia analysis, and mobile robot exploration and SLAM. He has led and contributed to R&D teams at Hyundai, Ford, Argo AI and in academia, bridging cutting-edge research in geometric algebra, optimization, and statistical estimation with production perception systems. His background spans both hardware-aware robotics (3D sonar, sensor fusion) and pixel-wise deep learning for segmentation and detection, giving him rare cross-disciplinary fluency. Known for translating research prototypes into commercial software and products, he has a track record of shipping SLAM and navigation modules and advising on robotics simulation tooling. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, he combines academic rigor from a PhD in Robotics with hands-on industry delivery across OEM and autonomy startups. Colleagues note his ability to fuse theoretical depth with practical system design, turning complex sensing problems into robust, deployable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD ME (Robotics), PhD ME (Robotics) at Pohang University of Science and Technology
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Kyoungmin Lee - Vice President at Hyundai Motor Company (현대자동차)