Curriculum Vitae

I’m a
    dad of two daughters,
    beer and wine taster,
    self-proclaimed cook,
    part-time housemaker,
    self-employed driver,
    most powerful porter,
    very slow programmer,
    and NLP & AI learner.

Ho-Joon Lee (이호준, 李昊俊)

  • [PRESENT POST] Associate Professor, Department of Advanced Media Contents, U1(유원) University
  • [PRESENT POST] CTO@ANYCHAT
  • [DATE OF BIRTH] May 17th, 1978
  • [E-MAIL] leehojoon@gmail.com, hjlee@u1.ac.kr
  • [PHONE] +82-41-536-5763, +82-10-9203-0517

Education

  • [2003. 9. – 2010. 8.] Computer Science, KAIST, Republic of Korea (Ph.D.)
  • [2001. 3. – 2003. 8.] Computer Science, KAIST, Republic of Korea (M.S.)
  • [1997. 3. – 2001. 2.] Computer Science, KAIST, Republic of Korea (B.S.)
  • [1994. 3. – 1997. 2.] Yeouido High School, Republic of Korea

Career

  • [2022. 10. – Present] CTO(ANYCHAT)
  • [2020. 6. – 2021. 6.] Vice President of R&DB Foundation (U1 University)
  • [2020. 3. – 2021. 6.] Director of Curriculum Innovation Center (U1 University)
  • [2020. 1. – Present] Editorial Board Member (KIISE Journal, Software and Applications)
  • [2018. 4. – 2021. 3.] Dean of the Department of Advanced Media Contents (U1 University)
  • [2017. 4. – Present] Associate Professor of the Department of Advanced Media Contents (U1 University)
  • [2016. 3. – Present] Director of ICT Convergence Research Institute (U1 University)
  • [2016. 3. – 2017. 3.] Assistant Professor of the Department of Advanced Media Contents (U1 University)
  • [2015. 10. – 2016. 4.] Associate Dean of Planning and Analysis (U1 University)
  • [2015. 9. – Present] CTO (PLEDO)
  • [2015. 8. – 2016. 2.] Dean of the Department of Smart IT (U1 University)
  • [2014. 4. – 2014. 10.] Organizing Committee (Competition of Information Processing System for Korean Language)
  • [2013. 2. – 2013. 6.] Advisory Committee (nGenSoft)
  • [2013. 1. – 2013. 12.] Advisory Committee (Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation)
  • [2012.10 – 2014. 9.] Expert Advisor (KOSEN, The Global Network of Korean Scientists & Engineers)
  • [2012. 9. – 2016. 2.] Assistant Professor of the Department of Smart IT (U1 University)
  • [2012. 9. – 2014. 7] Co-founder, CTO (KoolComm Tech)
  • [2012. 2. – Present] Steering Committee (SIGHCLT, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers)
  • [2011. 4. – 2012. 8.] Full-time Lecturer, the Department of Computer Engineering (U1 University)
  • [2010. 9. – 2011. 2.] Lecturer, Database System (Chungnam University)
  • [2010. 9. – 2011. 2.] Post-doc Researcher, Development of Emotional Speech Synthesis System (KAIST)
  • [2001. 3. – 2005. 8.] Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, KAIST

PhD Dissertation

  • Ho-Joon Lee, “Personal Prosody Model based Korean Emotional Speech Synthesis,” PhD Dissertation, KAIST, 2010.

Master Thesis

  • Ho-Joon Lee, “Integrated Morphology Analysis for Korean in a Combinatory Categorial Grammar Framework,” Master’s thesis, KAIST, 2003.

International Journals

  1. Ho-Joon Lee, “Fairy tale storytelling system: Using both prosody and text for emotional speech synthesis,” Communications in Computer and Information Science, CCIS 310, pages 317-324, Springer-Verlag, 2012.
  2. Ho-Joon Lee, Yong-Jae Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Reading desk for preschool children and older people with emotional speech synthesis,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 6935, pages 740-747, Springer-Verlag, 2011.
  3. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “Interpretation of User Evaluation for Emotional Speech Synthesis System,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 5610, pages 295-303, Springer-Verlag, 2009.
  4. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “Customized Message Generation and Speech Synthesis in Response to the Characteristic Behavioral Patterns of Children,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4552, pages 114-123, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
  5. Lee Hwa Jin, Ho-Joon Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Constructing SSML Documents with Automatically Generated Intonation Information in a Combinatory Categorial Grammar Framework,” International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (IJCPOL), volume 17, number 4, pages 223-238, December, 2004.

International Conferences

  1. Ho-Joon Lee, and Youngjung Geum, “Conceptual Approach to the Development of Technology Evolution Network Based on Structural and Semantic Analysis.” 2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET). IEEE, 2018.
  2. Lee, Yong-Jae, Koan Seok Kim, and Ho-Joon Lee, “Smart Piggy Bank: In-home Banking System for Children: Demo Abstract.” Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation. ACM, 2017.
  3. Ho-Joon Lee, “Emotional Acoustic Cues for Word Sense Modification,” International Conference on challenges in IT, Engineering and Technology (ICCIET’2014), Phuket, Thailand, July 17-18, 2014.
  4. Jin-Woo Chung, Ho-Joon Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Improving Accessibility to Web Documents for the Aurally Challenged with Sign Language Animation,” International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS’11), 2011.
  5. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “A Ubiquitous Smart Parenting and Customized Education Service Robot,” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), Korea, October 26-28, 2010.
  6. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “Vowel Sound Disambiguation for Proper Intonation Synthesis,” Proceedings of the 19th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 19), pages 131-142, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1-3, 2005.
  7. Lee Hwa Jin, Ho-Joon Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Constructing VoiceXML documents with Contextually Appropriate Intonation from Natural Language Dialogues in a Combinatory Categorial Grammar framework,” Proceedings of the 5th China-Korea Joint Symposium on Oriental Language Processing and Pattern Recognition, pages 2-9, Qingao, P.R.China, February 25-27, 2004.

Domestic Journals

  1. Ho-Joon Lee, “Korean Sentence Symbol Preprocess System for the Improvement of Speech Synthesis Quality,” Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information, volume 20, number 2, pages 149-156, February, 2015. (in Korean)
  2. Sang-Min Lee and Ho-Joon Lee, “How to Express Emotion: Role of Prosody and Voice Quality Parameters,” Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information, volume 19, number 11, pages 159-166, November, 2014.
  3. Jin-Woo Chung, Ho-Joon Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Sentence Type Identification in Korean: Applications to Korean-Sign Language Translation and Korean Speech Synthesis,” Journal of HCI Korea, 2010. (in Korean)

Domestic Conferences

  1. Gang-Sup Lee and Ho-Joon Lee, “Development of Community Question Answering System suitable for Internet of Things Environment,” Proceedings of the 2015 Spring Conference of the Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS), April 24-25, 2015. (in Korean)
  2. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “Evaluation of Emotion Categories based on the Analysis of Emotion-Rich Fairy Tales,” Proceedings of the 22nd Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2011), January 26-28, 2011. (in Korean)
  3. Seungjoo An, Ho-Joon Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Korean Speech Synthesis for Automatic Fairy Tale Narration with Automatic Identification of Character Roles,” Proceedings of the 22nd Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2011), January 26-28, 2011. (in Korean)
  4. Jin-Woo Chung, Ho-Joon Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Intonation Generation for Korean Speech Synthesis with Automated Sentence Type Classification,” Proceedings of the 21st Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2010), pages 161-163, January 27-29, 2010. (in Korean)
  5. Yoonjae Choi, Ho-Joon Lee, Hodong Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Extracting Melodies from Polyphonic Piano Solo Music Based on Patterns of Music Structure,” Proceedings of the 20th Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2009), pages 725-732, February 9-11, 2009. (in Korean)
  6. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “Analysis and Use of Intonation Features for Emotional States,” Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Human and Cognitive Language Technology, pages 144-149, October 11-12, 2008. (in Korean)
  7. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “Characteristics of Spoken Discourse Markers and their Application to Speech Synthesis Systems,” Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Human and Cognitive Language Technology, pages 254-260, October 12-13, 2007. (in Korean)
  8. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “Customized Speech Synthesis for Children with Characteristic Behavioral Patterns,” Proceedings of the 15th Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2006), volume 1, pages 571-578, February 13-16, 2006. (in Korean)
  9. Hye-Jin Min, Doojin Park, Chang Eunyoung, Ho-Joon Lee, and Jong C. Park, “u-SPACE: Ubiquitous Smart Parenting and Customized Education,” Proceedings of the 15th Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2006), volume 1, pages 94-102, February 13-16, 2006. (in Korean)
  10. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “Intonation Synthesis using Emotional Information from Spoken Fairy Tale,” Proceedings of the 17th Korean Association of Speech Science (KASS), pages 88-97, November 26, 2005. (in Korean)
  11. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “Lexical Disambiguation for Intonation Synthesis: A CCG Approach,” Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information (KSLI), pages 103-118, June 17-18, 2005. (in Korean)
  12. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “Morphological Analysis of Irregular Conjugation in Korean with Micro Combinatory Categorial Grammar,” Proceedings of the Korea Information Science Society (KISS) Spring Conference, volume 30, number 1(B), pages 531-533, April 24-26, 2003. (in Korean)
  13. Ho-Joon Lee and Jong C. Park, “Word Segmentation for Korean with Syllable-Level Combinatory Categorial Grammar,” Proceedings of the 14th National Conference on Korean Language Processing, pages 47-54, October 11-12, 2002. (in Korean)

Patents

  1. 문장 기호 처리를 통한 음성 합성 시스템 및 그 방법(Speech Synthesis System and method for processing through the punctuation marks), 출원번호 10-2015-0067871, 출원일 2015년 5월 15일, 대한민국
  2. 감정 음성 합성 기능을 가지는 보조 로봇 및 보조 로봇용 감정 음성 합성 방법 및 기록 매체(Assistive robot with emotional speech synthesizing function, method of synthesizing emotional speech for the assistive robot, and recording medium), 출원번호 2011-0039199, 출원일 2011년 4월 26일, 등록번호 10-1221188, 등록일 2013년 1월 4일, 대한민국
  3. 개인 운율 모델에 기반하여 감정 음성을 합성하기 위한 방법 및 장치 및 기록 매체(Method and system of synthesizing emotional speech based on personal prosody model and recording medium), 출원번호 2011-0012283, 출원일 2011년 2월 11일, 등록번호 10-1203188, 등록일 2012년 11월 14일, 대한민국
  4. 유비쿼터스 지능형 육아 서비스 및 맞춤형 교육 서비스 방법, 장치 및 기록 매체(Method and Apparatus for providing Ubiquitous Smart Parenting and Customized Education Service, and Recording medium thereof), 출원번호 2011-0034531, 출원일 2011년 4월 14일, 등록번호 10-1248323, 등록일 2013년 3월 21일, 대한민국

Grants Held

  • [2018. 6. – 2023. 5.] 기계학습과 규칙 기반 방식을 결합한 영어 에세이 자동 평가 및 피드백 시스템 개발, 과제번호: 2015R1D1A1A01058424, 연구재단(교육부)
  • [2015. 11. – 2018. 10.] 기초연구지원사업: 한국어 장단음의 올바른 표현을 위한 어휘 중의성 해소 방안 개발과 그 응용, 과제번호: 2018R1D1A1B07050866, 연구재단(교육부)
  • [2015. 9. – 2015. 12.] 양산형 스마트블록 상품패키지 소프트웨어 개발, 과제번호: , ㈜프레도
  • [2015. 2. – 2015. 3.] 영어 및 연산학습 용 지능형블록 알고리즘 개발, 과제번호: 1383, ㈜프레도
  • [2014. 9. – 2015. 1.] 휴먼 지식증강 서비스를 위한 지능진화형 WiseQA 플랫폼 기술 개발: 문맥을 고려한 일반 문장부호 전처리 기술 연구, 과제번호: EA20136335-1, ETRI
  • [2013. 12. – 2014. 3.] 휴먼 지식증강 서비스를 위한 지능진화형 WiseQA 플랫폼 기술 개발: 백과사전 전처리를 위한 규칙기반 학습 DB 및 시제품 제작, 과제번호: EA20136335, ETRI
  • [2013. 6. – 2013. 12.] 국가영어능력평가시험 쓰기 자동채점 프로그램 개발: 영어쓰기 자동채점을 위한 과제완성 및 내용평가 자질 연구, 과제번호: 4160026404, SK텔레콤
  • [2012. 5. – 2015. 4.] 신진연구지원사업: 감정 기반 사용자 친화적 음성 인터페이스 개발, 과제번호: 2012013389, 연구재단(교육과학기술부)
  • [2012. 2. – 2012. 12.] 영어쓰기 자동평가 및 피드백 시스템을 위한 영어구문분석기 연구개발: 구문분석기 성능향상을 위한 중의성 해소 모듈 구현 연구, 과제번호: 301-0087-6130-11, SK텔레콤
  • [2011. 8. – 2011. 11.] 디지털교과서의 적응적 서비스를 위한 표준화 방안 연구: 디지털교과서의 적응적 서비스를 위한 표준화 방안 연구, 과제번호: 연구보고 KR 2011-11, 한국교육학술정보원

Technology Transfer

  1. [2021. 8. 1.] 대화체 번역 기술(2천6백만원)
  2. [2020. 11.11.] 영어 에세이 자동 채점 및 피드백 기술, ㈜아이티스노우볼(2천2백만원)
  3. [2015. 1. 22.] 자연스러운 영어 텍스트-음성 합성 기술, ㈜프레도(1천1백만원)

Awards

  • [2018.11.] 2019 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2018.11.] Who’s Who in the World 2019, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2017.12.] 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2017.10.] Who’s Who in the World 2018, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2017.7.] Recognition of Global Achievement, International Biographical Centre
  • [2017.6.] Who’s Who in the World 2017, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2017.4.] 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2017.2.] International Professional of the Year 2017, International Biographical Centre
  • [2017.1.] World Leader of the Sciences 2017, International Biographical Centre
  • [2017.1.] Leading Professionals of the World 2017, International Biographical Centre
  • [2016.10.] 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21th Century 10th Edition, International Biographical Centre
  • [2016.10.] Top 100 Scientists 2016, International Biographical Centre
  • [2016.10.] Who’s Who in Korea 2017, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2015.8.] Dictionary of International Biography 38th Edition, International Biographical Centre
  • [2015.5.] Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2016-2017, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2015.4.] Who’s Who in the World 2016, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2015.2.] 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21th Century, International Biographical Centre
  • [2014.10.] 동상, 2014 국어 정보 처리 시스템 경진 대회, 국립국어원장상, 문화체육관광부 및 국립국어원 주최, 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회 주관
  • [2014.9.] Who’s Who in the World 2015, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2014.6.] 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21th Century, International Biographical Centre
  • [2013.9.] Who’s Who in the World 2014, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2013.3.] Leading Engineers of the World 2013, International Biographical Centre
  • [2012.9.] Who’s Who in the World 2013, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2012.5.] Great Minds of the 21st Century, American Biographical Institute
  • [2012.4.] 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21th Century, International Biographical Centre
  • [2011.5.] Who’s Who in the World 2011, Marquis Who’s Who
  • [2011.1.] 장려상, 한국 HCI 학회
  • [2008.8.] 은상, 인간기능 생활지원 지능로봇 기술개발사업단
  • [2005.11.] 우수논문상, 한국음성과학회
  • [2004.9.] 우수조교상, 한국과학기술원
  • [2004.4.] 우수조교상, 한국과학기술원
  • [2003.10.] 우수발표 논문상, 한국정보과학회

Projects Experienced

  • [2010. 6. – 2011. 1.] Assistant Researcher, Syntactic and Semantic Analyses of Korean Utterances (ETRI) (Government)
  • [2010. 5. – 2011. 2.] Assistant Researcher, An Automatic Conversion from the Text in Korean into Animations in Korean Sign Language in a Web Environment (ERC, NRF) (Government)
  • [2009. 1. – 2009. 12.] Assistant Researcher, Development of Morpheme-level Korean Sentence Analyzer for the Generation of Sign Language Animation (PRIMPO) (Industry)
  • [2008. 5. – 2008. 12.] Assistant Researcher, Real-time Topic Keyword Extraction for Summarization System (KIST) (Government)
  • [2007. 7. – 2007. 12.] Assistant Researcher, Survey on Spoken Language Processing Techniques for Interactive Intelligent Table Top Environment (KIST) (Government)
  • [2006. 4. – 2011. 2.] Assistant Researcher, Development of Multimodal Emotion/Situation/Intention Expression Database and Automatic Generation for Assistive Robot Services (21C Frontier Program, MOST) (Government)
  • [2004. 7. – 2008. 3.] Assistant Researcher, Development of Artificial Brain and Secretary Robots based on Brain-information Processing (BSRC, MOST) (Government)
  • [2001. 3. – 2008. 2.] Assistant Researcher, Customizable Natural Language Query Interpretation (AITrc, MOST) (Government)