Kun-Pyo Lee | Biography

Kun-Pyo Lee is professor and head of the department of Industrial design at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea. He is also director of Human-Centered Interaction Design Lab.

He studied at Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, US. (MS) and Tsukuba University, Japan (PhD). He was visiting professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, Tsukuba University and University of Art and Design Helsinki.

Professional experience includes appointments as vice president of Korean Society of Design Science (KSDS); vice president for Ergonomic Society of Korea; vice president of Korea Society for Emotion and Sensibility (KSES); International Editor for Design Studies published by Elsevier; Judge of Asian Design Award and Good Design Award.

He consulted design planning and interface design for Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Johnson & Johnson. Major areas of research interests include design methodology, human-centered design, and cultural user-interface design. He also received many international design awards including grand prize at 1st Osaka International Design Competition, best paper award at 2nd Asian Design Conference, and best paper award at 2004 HCI conference. He published about 50 papers in oversea and domestic design journals and presented about 150 papers in design conferences.