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Lee Kun-Woo
NationalitySouth Korean
Alma materkyunggi high School,

Seoul National University,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Websitewww.dgist.ac.kr

Lee Kun-Woo (Korean: 이건우; born 1955) is the 5th President of DGIST and is a scientist and professor in the field of engineering.

Education

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He received a mechanical engineering degree from Seoul National University in 1978, a master's degree in 1981, and a doctoral degree in 1984 from MIT.

Career

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He was a Seoul National University's Mechanical Engineering Department professor from 1986 to 2020.[1]

He is co-editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Computer-aided Design (2004–2014)[2]

and Computational Design at Oxford Publishing.[3] He was the editor-in-chief of Engineering (2014-present). He served as a professor at Seoul National University (1986–2020), the first president of the Next Generation Fusion Technology Research Institute[4] (2004–2009), the president of the Institute of Technology (2013–2017), and the first president of the Graduate School of Engineering (2016–2017). He has also served as Deputy Director of the Korean Academy of Engineering (2015–2020). He is a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Korean Academy of Engineering.[5]

Skills and Expertise

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His main area of interest is human-centered CAD systems that enable design while simultaneously simulating products and human users, and he published "Principles of CAD/CAM/CAE[6]" in 1999. His research led to two successful startups in the U.S. and Korea.

References

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  1. ^ "researchgate : professor lee kun-woo".
  2. ^ "computer-aided-design".
  3. ^ "Journal of Computational Design and Engineering".
  4. ^ "첨단산업의 중심 '차세대융합기술원' 개원 - 뉴스 - 서울대 소식".
  5. ^ "Kunwoo Lee – GEDC".
  6. ^ Lee, Kunwoo (1999). Principles of CAD/CAM/CAE Systems: Supplement. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0201380366.