Professor Geunbae Lee (이근배 교수)

Gary Geunbae Lee, Ph.D. Professor

Gary Geunbae Lee has been a professor at CSE department POSTECH in Korea since 1991. He is a director of Intelligent Software (ISoft) Laboratory which focuses on human/natural language technology researches including spoken dialog processing, intelligent computer assisted language learning, speech synthesis and web/text mining. Professor Lee has authored more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences, and has more than 20 patents registered in speech and language technology. Prof Lee has served as a technical committee member for several international conferences such as ACL, COLING, IJCAI, SIGIR, IUI, Interspeech, ASRU/SLT and ICASSP. He is currently in a steering committee member for Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), International workshop on spoken dialog systems (IWSDS), and a board member of Asia Federation of NLP. He is serving as an associate editor of IEEE transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP) and ACM transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP). He has been a PC co-chair for AIRS2009, AIRS 2005, workshop chair for IUI 2007, and a PC area chair for IJCNLP 2004, 2005, 2008, and COLING2010. He has edited several special issues of journals including ACM Trans. on Asian Language Information Processing and Information Processing & Management. He co-founded DiQuest and has been a CTO, which is now one of the major search engine companies in Korea, and has been a technical advisor for Pentax-Voiceware, Infinity Telecom, SK Telecom and many other companies. He was a winner of IR52 Jangyoungsil award with DiQuest, which is one of the most prestigious technology innovation awards in Korea. He is currently leading several national and industry projects for robust spoken dialog systems, dialog-based English tutoring agents, multimedia search/recommendation systems and expressive TTS. Professor Lee holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA, and BS/MS in computer engineering from Seoul National University.

E-mail

gblee AT postech.ac.kr (it follows me wherever I go)

Mailing Address

Gary Geunbae Lee, PhD, Professor

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech)

San 31 HyoJaDong, NamGu, Pohang 790-784, South Korea

Phone

+82-54-279-2254 (Office)

+82-54-279-2719 (Dept. Office)

+82-10-3811-3251 (cell phone)

Fax

+82-54-279-2299 (Dept. Office)

Education

1984-Seoul National University (BS-Computer Engineering)
1986-Seoul National Universiry (MS-Computer Engineering)
1991-UCLA (Ph.D-Computer Science)

Work experiences

1991.3-1991.9: Research scientist, Biology department, UCLA
1991.9-1997.2: Assistant Professor, POSTECH
1997.3- 2004.2: Associate Professor, POSTECH
2000.9 – 2001.8: Visiting researcher, CSLI, Stanford University
2000.3 – 2001.8 CTO, DiQuest
2004.3 – current: Professor, POSTECH

Research interests (in general)

Natural Language Processing
Spoken Dialog Systems
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Text-to-Speech Systems
Text mining and Information Retrieval

Current Professional activities

Co-founder & Scientific Advisor: DiQuest (www.diquest.com) 2001-

Associate Editor: IEEE Trans. On Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), 2010.3- 2013.3

Associate Editor: ACM Trans. On Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2010. 7- 2011. 12

Chief Editor: Journal of Computer Science and Engineering (JCSE): Software & Applications, 2007 –

Chief Editor: Journal of KIISE: Software and applications, 2009-

Demo Co-chair ACL 2009

PC Co-chair AIRS 2009

Senior PC ACM IUI 2010

PC area Chair COLING 2010

Co-chair ACL2012 local organization committee

Organization co-chair International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2009)

Board member: AFNLP (Asian Federation of NLP) 2009-

Steering Committee member: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDST) 2009-

Steering Committee member: AIRS (Asian Information Retrieval Symposium; formerly IRAL) 2006-

Program committee members (past and present): acl, coling, naacl hlt, eacl, emnlp, ijcnlp, interspeech, ieee asru/slt, ieee icassp, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), acl/isca sigdial, acm sigir, airs, acm iui, ijcai

DBLP entry of Gary Geunbae Lee

Publications from 1995 to 1996

Publications from 1997 to 2002

Publications from 2003 to current

Professional Activities

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