Lee, Kwang-Hyung
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President, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
President Kwang Hyung Lee is a futurologist who pioneered multidisciplinary studies and research
at KAIST. He advocated that the convergence of information, biology, and nano-technologies
would be critical for future industries, playing a crucial role in establishing the Department of Bio
and Brain Engineering in 2001 and the Moon Soul Graduate School of Future Strategy in 2013.
He then served as the inaugural head of both faculties.
President Lee has extensive administrative experience at KAIST, serving as Associate Vice President
of the International Office, and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs since early 2001.
He is also serving as a member of the Korea Presidential Education Committee.
An ardent champion of entrepreneurship and startups, he has advised the first generations of KAIST
startup entrepreneurs such as Nexon, IDIS, Neowiz, and Olaworks. President Lee, drawn to creative
thinking and flipped learning, is famous for watching TV upside down. Such pioneering ideas and
his unusual thinking style were modeled in the ‘eccentric professor’ role featured on the TV hit drama
of ‘KAIST’ from 1999 to 2000.
An alumnus who earned his MS in industrial engineering at KAIST in 1980 after completing
his undergraduate studies at Seoul National University, President Lee joined the KAIST faculty in 1985
upon receiving his PhD in computer science from INSA de Lyon in France.
A computer scientist as well as fuzzy theorist whose research area extends to AI, bioinformatics,
fuzzy intelligent systems, and foresight methods, President Lee has published more than 70 papers
in international journals and textbooks on system programming, fuzzy set theory and its applications,
and three-dimensional creativity. He also invented a fuzzy elevator, subway operation controller,
and AI transportation controller.
A fellow at the Korea Academy of Science and Technology and the National Academy of Engineering
of Korea, he was decorated by the Korean government and the French government in recognition
of the innovative education and research initiatives he has pursued.