Bongshin Lee
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Yonsei University
Bongshin Lee | |
|---|---|
| Education | Yonsei University University of Maryland |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Microsoft Research Yonsei University |
| Thesis | Interactive Visualizations for Trees and Graphs (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ben Bederson |
| Other academic advisors | Yoon-Chul Choy |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 이봉신 |
| RR | I Bongsin |
| MR | I Pongsin |
| Website | bongshiny |
Bongshin Lee (Korean: 이봉신) is a computer scientist whose research concerns information visualization, human–computer interaction, the quantified self, and the automated conversion of sketches into data visualizations.[1] She was educated in and has worked in both South Korea and the US; she is a professor at Yonsei University in South Korea.
Lee studied computer science at Yonsei University in Seoul. She earned a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1996, and a master's degree in 1998, advised by Yoon-Chul Choy. After two years as a software engineer in South Korea, she went to the University of Maryland, College Park for continued study in computer science, earning a second master's degree in 2002 and completing her Ph.D. in 2006.[2] Her dissertation, Interactive Visualizations for Trees and Graphs, was supervised by Ben Bederson.[3]
She joined Microsoft Research in 2006, and was a senior principal researcher there from 2019 to 2024, when she returned to Yonsei University as a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.[2]
