Gary Geunbae
Lee, Ph.D. Professor
Gary Geunbae Lee has been a professor at CSE department of 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 250 papers in international journals and conferences, and has more than 35 patents registered in speech and language technology area. 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 for Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), International workshop on spoken dialog systems (IWSDS), and has been an executive 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, and also a senior program committee member for IJCAI 2011, ACM IUI 2011. He was a local organization co-chair of ACL 2012 (50th anniversary meeting) and general chair of SIGDIAL 2012. 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 SK Telecom, Samsung Electronics, and many other start-up 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.
gblee AT postech.ac.kr (it follows me wherever I go)
Mailing Address
Gary Geunbae Lee, PhD, Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
San 31 HyoJaDong, NamGu,
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
2000.9 – 2001.8: Visiting researcher, CSLI, Stanford
University
2000.3 – 2001.8 CTO, DiQuest
1991.9 –
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- 2014.3
Associate Editor: ACM
Trans. On Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP),
2010. 7- 2013. 5
Associate Editor Journal
of computing science and engineering (JCSE) 2011.1-
Local Arrangements Co-chair ACL2012
General Co-chair SIGDIAL 2012
Board member: AFNLP (Asian Federation of NLP) 2009-
Steering Committee member: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 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, APSIPA, acl/isca sigdial, acm sigir, airs, acm iui, ijcai, semdial
DBLP entry of Gary Geunbae Lee
Publications from 1995 to 1996
Publications from 1997 to 2002
Publications from 2003 to current
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