Jinoh Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea. He received the B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2003 (awarded Summa Cum Laude, Top 2%) and the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2012. Since 2012, he has joined the Department of Advanced Robotics (Directed by Prof Darwin Caldwell), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, Italy, as a postdoctoral researcher, and was awarded a competitive grant from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korean Government, titled as `Fostering next-generation researchers program' from 2013-2014. He received the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (2004), and was also a finalist for the Best Interactive Paper Award at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots (2015).

He is currently a Research Scientist in the Dept of Advanced Robotics (ADVR) at IIT,directed by Prof. Darwin Caldwell, and has been involved in projects such as Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction (SAPHARI) and Whole-body Adaptive Locomotion and Manipulation (WALK-MAN) funded by European Commission. In particular, he is a team member of WALK-MAN participating to final DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) on 5-6 June, 2015, Pomona USA, where strong contributions have been made to develop various manipulation skills on the humanoid WALK-MAN and low-level controllers.


He is a Senior Member of IEEE (SM'17).