Jongann Lee

I am a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I work with Prof. Melkior Ornik in the LEADCAT group. My research interests are robot learning, multi-agent planning, and geometric learning. I currently work on multi-agent planning in uncertain environments and point cloud foundation models for robotics.

I’m actively looking for research internship positions in robotics, 3D computer vision, and path planning for summer 2027!

Please feel free to reach out!

selected publications

NeurIPS

SIEVE: Overcoming Topological Obstruction in Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning

Jongann Lee, Sun Woo Park, and Yun Young Choi

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026

arXiv Bib HTML PDF Code

@inproceedings{lee2026sieve,
  title = {{SIEVE}: Overcoming Topological Obstruction in Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning},
  author = {Lee, Jongann and Park, Sun Woo and Choi, Yun Young},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year = {2026},
}

IROS

Navigating in Uncertain Environments with Heterogeneous Visibility

Jongann Lee and Melkior Ornik

In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2026

arXiv Bib HTML PDF Code

@inproceedings{lee2026heterogeneousvisibility,
  title = {Navigating in Uncertain Environments with Heterogeneous Visibility},
  author = {Lee, Jongann and Ornik, Melkior},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
  year = {2026},
}