Deok-Jin Lee received a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in May 2005. He worked for the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) from 2006 to 2007 and Korean Air R&D Center from 2009 to 2011. He was also a research professor at the Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research (CAVR), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, U.S.A. Until 2021, he was an associate professor at the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at Kunsan National University and also the director of the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (CAIAS). Currently, he is an associate professor at the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering and also the director of the Center for Autonomous Intelligence and e-Mobility (CAIM) at Jeonbuk National University, South Korea. His research interests include intelligent autonomous systems, robotics learning, deep reinforcement learning, sensor fusion, adaptive estimation and control, integrated navigation, and multi-agent control.