
Scott (Seongwon) Lee

Scott (Seongwon) Lee
Ph.D. Candidate · Robotics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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I study task and motion planning, multi-robot systems, and agentic systems with Nancy M. Amato at UIUC
.
Previously, as a Ph.D. Resident at X, the Moonshot Factory
, I worked on wet-lab automation with robotics and multi-agent LLMs. I earned my bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering at Yonsei University
(2021), advised by Jongeun Choi.
Research





Projects

An interactive 3D factory where multi-arm workcells assemble LEGO models while mobile manipulators fetch bricks, planned by a hierarchy of order assignment (MILP), multi-robot task planning and multi-arm motion planning. Configure a workcell's robot arms yourself, or watch the factory run with a live Gantt chart.

A simulated wet lab run end to end: an LLM agent reads protocols and datasheets to set the lab's limits, labware and liquid prep, Bayesian optimization picks the next plates, a CP-SAT scheduler plans the robots, and PyLabRobot executes the pipetting. When the data looks wrong, the agent is called back, adds the missing limit and drops the spoiled plates. Watch the whole loop run: robots, schedule, agent decisions and the hunt for drug pairs that work better together.

Developing an robotics automation system for a biology lab, funded by National Science Foundation (NSF)

Demonstrated a simple factory automation demo to pre-college students at the Engineering Open House (EOH) at UIUC

Designed a vision-based system for handoff operations between a workstation and a mobile manipulator

Implemented cooperative planning algorithms for fully autonomous combat robots (Achieved 3rd place)
Professional Service
- Reviewer
- RAL, ICRA, IROS, WAFR (2022 - 2024)
- Teaching & Mentoring
- Research Program Mentor (CS), UIUC โ Fall 2023, Summer 2024, Spring 2024
- Fluid Mechanics (ME 310), UIUC โ Fall 2022, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
- Mathematical Methods (TAM 541), UIUC โ Fall 2021