David D. Lee received B.S. and M.S. degrees
in mechanical engineering from Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea.
In 2016, he acquired an M.S. and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Before his Ph.D., he worked as a
Research Engineer at Hyundai Heavy Industry and LS Industrial Systems from 2000
to 2009. He was also a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center of Space Research
of the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA, from 2016 to 2018, and is currently
working as an Assistant Professor of aerospace engineering at Iowa State
University, Ames, IA, USA. He is also the Director of Cardinal Space Laboratory
and researching space missions based on a CubeSat platform, attitude
determination and control (ADCS), and entry, descent, and landing (EDL) of a
spacecraft. His research interests include nonlinear model predictive control
of the car, drone, and spacecraft feet with various constraints and extended
tracking of 3D targets using their point clouds.
