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Dr. Kyungwook Lee is a pioneering roboticist specializing in locomotion systems for extreme and unstructured environments, with a core focus on wheel-terrain interaction, amphibious mobility, and high-precision positioning. His most significant contribution is the invention of the Angled Spoke-based Wheel (ASW), a novel design that dramatically enhances the speed and agility of mobile robots on challenging surfaces like granular media and asphalt. This work, demonstrated in his highly cited paper on the "DODO" robot (17 citations), employs the Taguchi method for design optimization, marking a breakthrough in traversing uneven terrain. Dr. Lee further extended this concept to life-saving applications, developing an amphibious robot with a self-rotating paddle-wheel mechanism (15 citations) designed for maritime rescue operations in hazardous environments. His empirical studies on ASW characteristics on granular media provide foundational knowledge for the field. Beyond ground vehicles, Dr. Lee has also advanced the reliability of vertical robots, optimizing rope winch systems to compensate for position errors in façade-cleaning robots. His work uniquely bridges bio-inspired design with rigorous engineering optimization, establishing him as a leading voice in creating robust, high-performance robots for the most demanding real-world conditions.