Hayeong Lee

I’m a Computer Science student at King’s who enjoys making abstract ideas work in the real world. Last year, I automated a repetitive reporting task at my internship — not as a job requirement, but because I couldn’t resist trying. That same mindset led me to explore robotics, co-author a paper on object detection, and now prepare for RoboCup 2025 with faculty and ARIA support. I believe the best research comes from building with people in mind — which is exactly why I’m drawn to the Knowledge Exchange framework.

• ARIA RoboCup Sponsorship
  Awarded by the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to support preparation and participation in RoboCup 2025 robotics competition
  (2024–2025)
• Korean Government Dream Scholarship
  Awarded by the Ministry of Education of Korea to outstanding high school students studying abroad, based on academic merit and leadership potential
  (2020–Present)

• RoboCup Home 2025 – Team Laser | July 2025 (Brazil, upcoming
  Developing a ROS2-based home assistant robot for the international RoboCup Home league
  - Building an integrated system with perception, navigation, voice interface, and robotic arm control
  - Designing and testing object grasping tasks using a manipulator in dynamic indoor environments
  - Collaborating with faculty and sponsored by ARIA to represent King's College London internationally
• King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence 2025 | 2025 (upcoming)
  Participating in two AI-focused robotics projects for a university-wide exhibition event
  - ‘Tiago the Server’: Programming a restaurant-serving robot using motion planning and task scheduling
  - ‘RobotSoccer AI vs Human’: Developing a multi-agent system with learned policies competing against humans
  - Contributing to cross-functional teams combining perception, decision-making, and human-robot interaction
• BAME Mentorship Program – Research Collaboration | 2025
  Co-uthored a research paper "Why orange is the new apple: Investigating YOLO's Sim-to-Realon object detection failure"
  - Built a modular evaluation framework using ROS to simulate and test domain shift conditions
  - Contributed to model training, result analysis, and paper writing in collaboration with a PhD mentor
  - Presented findings as part of an undergraduate research mentorship under faculty supervision
• Autonomous Ball-Picking Robot – Research in EEE Society | 2024
  Designed and built a physical robot from scratch to autonomously detect and collect balls using computer vision
  - Developed custom chassis and integrated motors, sensors, and camera modules
  -Trained and deployed an AI model to recognize and localize balls in a cluttered environment
  - Led the perception and control pipeline in a team-based research project at the EEE Society
• TurtleBot Fruit Detection Challenge | 2024
  Built an autonomous system using TurtleBot to detect and localize artificial fruits in an indoor environment
  - Designed a perception and navigation pipeline for object detection and movement planning
  - Achieved first place in a department-level challenge and was invited to join Team LASR for RoboCup Home
  - Project led to deeper involvement in robotics research and ongoing competition preparation