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Ji-Hyun Lee is a Professor at the Graduate School of Culture Technology in KAIST. She received her Ph.D. in School of Architecture (Computational Design) at Carnegie Mellon University writing a thesis about integrating housing design and case-based reasoning. She was an Assistant Professor at NYUST, Taiwan from 2002 to 2007. Since joining the GSCT at KAIST as an Associate Professor, her research focus narrowed down to three interdisciplinary areas that are not mutually exclusive: (1) Calculation for UX + service design, (2) Physical / virtual proximity in city, and (3) User-Centric home and furniture customization. These explorations result in computer-based frameworks or systems contributing to the enhancement of the calculability using algorithmic and/or heuristic computational methods. In other words, her research focus is on ‘culture technology’ as an extension of computational design. She holds “Cultural DNA” international workshops every two years and the results are published in Springer.
Currently, she is the Director of the Information-Based Design (IBD) Lab in KAIST. She recently became a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (공학한림원). She was the Director in Division of Artrs, Culture and Convergence of National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea (2019~2021). She received Sasada prize from the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) in 2019 and served for the Secretary of the CAADRIA from 2008 to 2010. She is also serving as an Editor-in-chief of Korea Institute of Design Research Society (KIDRS), and a Director of Korean Society of Design Science (KSDS) and HCI Korea (KHCI).
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