Kwan Hong Lee
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| | Education |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
MIT Media Lab, Viral Communications (http://viral.media.mit.edu)
Ph.D. Candidate in Media Arts and Sciences, Sep. 2004 - Present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
MIT Media Lab, Speech Interface Group (http://www.media.mit.edu/speech/)
Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences, Sep. 1999 - Sep. 2001
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Cornell Network Research Group
Master of Engineering in Computer Science, Aug. 1997 - Aug. 1998
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Aug. 1994 - Dec. 1997
Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lima, Peru
U.S. High School Diploma, Jun. 1994
| | Experience |
| Bank of America |
Intern Associate |
| Charlotte, NC |
June 2007 - August 2007 |
* Directed the design of knowledge, event, data sharing portal for quantitative analysts across the enterprise.
* Prototyped the portal and social network visualization on Google Earth.
| Middle East Education Through Technology (MEET) |
Instructor |
| Jerusalem, Israel |
June 2005 - August 2005 |
* Taught Java programming to 18 students.
* Mentored the MEET-Jerusalem project guiding 6 students in the development of prototype and writing of the business plan.
See http://enchalla.media.mit.edu:8080/Jerusalem/map.jsp
| Reakosys Inc. |
Consultant |
| Seoul, Korea |
February 2004 - August 2004 |
* Prototyped various Bluetooth applications for local multi user game.
* Researched business opportunities in the Southeast Asian market.
* Voice applications integration with Daum services.
* Location based photo mapping system.
| Bose Corporation |
Research Software Engineer |
| Framingham, MA |
Sep. 2001 - Sep. 2003 |
* Developed a UI prototyping toolkit for designing and testing state machines for user interfaces, enabling rapid prototyping, testing, user evaluation and auto generation of documentation of the user interfaces. The toolkit was utilized to decide upon the functionality of the touch sensitive button interface for the next generation Wave Radio/CDs.
* Developed tools to merge different metadata databases for networked on demand music system.
* Implemented audio level matching algorithm for mp3's in C using proprietary audio libraries.
* Developed two way remote control software in Python for hard drive based music system. Deployed on an iPaq running Linux over 802.11b.
* Procured and deployed home evaluation units for hard drive based smart music system.
| MIT Media Lab |
Research Assistant in Speech Interface Group |
| Cambridge, MA |
Sep 1999 - Sep 2001 |
* Designed and developed framework for real time, non real time, awareness, telephony, speech recognition and text to speech audio applications and services for mobile devices.
* Researched on audio interfaces for handling multiple audio applications on hand held devices.
* Managed three undergraduate research students.
See http://www.media.mit.edu/speech/projects/impromptu/
| GTE (now merged with Verizon) |
System Engineer |
| Dallas, TX |
Sep 1999 - Sep 2001 |
* Developed Java servlets and web front end for customer service representatives to support Internet billing.
* Developed database interfaces for the Internet Billing Project.
Interfaced with clients for requirements gathering.
* Participated in the effort to bring the sofware organization to CMM Level 2.
| Cornell Network Research Group |
Research Assistant |
| Ithaca, NY |
Dec 1997 - Aug 1998 |
* Developed Internet voice messaging system using Java Telephony API and Lucent PBX. Voice messages were made accessible via e-mail.
* Developed telephone network simulator on Unix.
See http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cnrg/multiplanar/telephony/Default.html
| Samsung SDS |
Samsung Global Internship Program |
| Seoul, Korea |
June 1997 - Aug 1997 |
* Worked in Samsung SDS Wireless Communication group.
* Developed Windows application for mapping signal strengths for base stations by interfacing with GPS and signal receivers.
| | Publications |
Chris Schmandt, Kwan Lee, Jang Kim, Mark Ackerman. Impromptu: Managing Networked Audio Applications for Mobile Users. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. June 2004.
Chris Schmandt, Jang Kim, Kwan Hong Lee, Gerardo Vallejo, and Mark Ackerman. Mediated Voice Communication via Mobile IP. In Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, pages 141-150. ACM, 2002.
Kwan Hong Lee. MIT S.M. Thesis. Impromtpu: Audio Applications for Mobile IP. 2001.
| | Skills and Interests |
Technical:
Python, Ruby, Linux, Java, RMI, C, C++, Windows MFC, XML, audio, network programming. Linux mobile software development. Wireless communications. Streaming media. Ubiquitous audio.
Business: International business, foreign markets, international R&D.
Language Skills:
Spoken and written English, Korean; some spoken Spanish.
| | International |
Lived in Spain, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Korea and the US.
| | References |
Available on request.
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