Min Cheol Lee (Member, IEEE) received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, in 1983, and an M.Eng. degree in engineering science and a Ph.D. in applied physics from the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He was a visiting professor at North Carolina State University from 2000 to 2001, and Purdue University from 2009 to 2010. Since 1991, he has been a professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University. His research interests include intelligent robot control, autonomous mobile robots, medical robotics, system identification, sliding mode control, and navigation/localization of mobile robots.