Seok-Won Lee, Ajou University

 

Bio: Dr. Seok-Won Lee is currently a Full Professor in the Dept. of Software Convergence Technology and Head of Graduate School of Software at Ajou University, Republic of Korea since 2012. Before his move to Korea (after spending 20+ years in the United States) he was a faculty member in the Dept. of Information Systems & Cyber Security, College of Business at theUniversity of Texas at San Antonio during 2011-2012 and an Adjunct Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Linclon.  He has been a visiting faculty at the University of Nebraska -  Lincoln during 2010-11. He was a faculty member in the Dept. of Software and Information Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during 2003 - 2010. Prior to joining to the UNC Charlotte, he was affiliated with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC, Northern Virginia), IBM T.J. Watson Research Center(Hawthorn Lab, New York), George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). He has received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from Dongkuk University at Seoul, Republic of Korea, M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University at Fairfax, Virginia. His areas of specialization include software engineering with specific expertise in ontological requirements engineering and domain modeling,knowledge engineering with specific expertise in knowledge acquisition, machine learning and knowledge-based systems, and information assurance with specific expertise in software security & privacy. He serves as chairs, organizers, editors and the program committee members for numerous journals, conferences, and workshops in software requirements engineering, secure software engineering and many other related areas such as critical infrastructure protection, service-oriented computing, visual analytics and self-adaptive software systems. He has published more than 150 refereed articles. He is a professional member of IEEE, ACM and AAAI.  

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Since the period of UNC Charlotte, he established and has been leading the Knowledge-intensive Software Engineering Research Group (NiSE).