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 natural language processing including spoken dialog processing, intelligent computer assisted language learning, question answering, 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 international conferences such as ACL, COLING, IJCAI, SIGIR, IUI, Interspeech, ASRU/SLT and ICASSP. He has been 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 has served as an associate editor of IEEE/ACM 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 and ACM IUI 2011. He was a local organization co-chair of ACL 2012 (50th anniversary meeting) and general chair of SIGDIAL 2012 and IWSDS2015. 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 becomes now one of the major search engine company in Korea, and has been a technical advisor for SK Telecom, Samsung Electronics, and many other start-up companies.  He founded AI research center at Samsung Research and served as a director during 2015-2019. He was a winner of IR52 Jangyoungsil award with DiQuest, which is one of the most prestigious technology innovation awards in Korea. He has been 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. 

Research interests (in general)

Natural Language Processing

Spoken Dialog Systems

Text-to-Speech Systems

Text mining and Information Retrieval

Computer Assisted Language Learning