AI STEM Specialist

I am delighted to apply for a Freelance Mechanical Engineer for AI Model Training position at FRATCH. I am highly interested in this position due to my lifetime passion for robotics coupled with a Ph.D. in control in robotic manipulation. My main research area is robotic manipulation control and design. I developed one of the best robot interaction controllers, designed a learning controller for industrial robots, designed/developed many robotics systems, developed soft robots with dramatic morphology changes. To understand robot dynamics better, I worked with many electric motors and transmissions for robots. It helped me to take a unified approach to developing novel robot interaction controllers based on physics of robot hardware. However, the high interaction control performance of robots was achieved by an intelligent control approach. I developed robot interaction controllers based on observations of human social interactions, basically making robots imitate human interactive behavior. As robots serve humans more, this approach to learn from humans and applying it to robot interactions will enhance performance in both physical and social sense. I published a paper showing that even a simpler form of learning controller was successfully applied for industrial robots performing repetitive tasks. I would like to build upon the success of application of simple Artificial Intelligence to robot manipulation, to make robots effectively handle uncertainty and ambiguity, which arise inevitably during robot manipulation and interaction with environments, using AI. I studied AI early on during my graduate study and am excited to help robots to serve humanity in a productive way using AI. I worked for xAI as STEM specialist. Last year, I led a technology development task group for NASA Habitable World Observatory (HWO) Space Telescope Sensing & Control Subgroup with a goal of a single picometer resolution. I was an associate editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society I have defined and developed new robotic systems and algorithmic solutions to address relevant challenges, from space exploration to climate change. I have extensive experience in simulations and real-time low-level C++, Matlab, and Simulink programming and robot/control experiments in real-time operating systems. I have experience in conceptual design, modeling, simulation, control, prototype development, and experimental verification for autonomous systems. At NASA, I have developed and tested a novel DC brushless motor and superconducting energy storage systems. Throughout my career, I have been engaged in multiple disciplines. I worked as a research scientist at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, where I collaborated on soft robots with professors and postdoctoral fellows at Harvard University and MIT in a variety of fields. After Harvard, I have worked at the start-up, which develps internal pipeline repair robots for the oil/gas industry, space robotics, and space systems. I anticipate this professional experience will help me engage with the government and industry. Recently, I became interested in robotic on-orbit assembly and repair in space. I am also working on nano/pico satellites equipped with high-temperature superconductor (HTS) reaction wheels. I am eager for collaborative opportunities to develop specific robot manipulation systems to meet challenges in the rapidly changing world. My experience in academia includes serving as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Also, I completed a visiting professorship in the EECS and the ME departments at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). I completed my work as a joint postdoctoral aerospace fellow at NASA Johnson Space Center and the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston. I would bring significant, practical engineering experience and expertise to this position. I have worked on the design and control of space systems, robots, and autonomous systems. I have designed engineering systems at macro/micro/nano scales. At NASA, I worked on HTS energy storage systems and the software of the Robotics Workstation of the International Space Station. My research on the HTS lunar telescope bearing system at NASA won the ISTEC/MRS award. I pioneered the development of the micro HTS energy storage and attitude control systems for nano/pico satellites, which was the finalist for the best paper award at the Int. Conf. on Energy Conversion and won the NASA GSFC award. My previous work also includes robot interaction controllers for unstructured environments, such as space, which won the best presentation award at the American Control Conference. Also, I have worked on the design and control of a 3D nanomanipulator and sensor for bio/nano samples at KAIST. Based on my multi-disciplinary background, I am certain that I could make significant contributions to FRATCH. I have enclosed my curriculum vitae for your review. Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely, Eunjeong Lee