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Kwan Hong Lee

Current Address: 15 Pearl St. Apt # 20 Cambridge, MA 02139
kwan_at_media.mit.edu
http://www.media.mit.edu/~kwan
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
MIT Media Lab, Viral Communications (http://viral.media.mit.edu)
Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences, Sep 2004 - Sep 2011
MIT Media Lab, Speech and Mobility 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
Bachelor of Science, Master of Engineering in Computer Science, Aug 1994 - Aug 1998

Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lima, Peru
U.S. High School Diploma, Jun 1994

Experience

Entrepreneurship Experiences Founder, CEO
Cambridge, MA Jan 2010 - Present

* Founded BeViral Media LLC http://www.beviral.com/ to enable a more efficient job market for recruiters and hidden deep talent.
* Founded ViralTempo Inc http://www.viraltempo.com/ to provide social analytic advertising and marketing to businesses utilizing their customer data, social networks and their temporal rhythms.

MIT Media Lab Research Assistant in Viral Communications
Cambridge, MA Sep 2004 - Sep 2011

* Organized the Mobile Applications in Finance Competition (Jan 2009) and the Future of Payments Workshop (Jan 2010) by obtaining sponsorships from Bank of America, Intuit and Qualcomm.
* Initiated the relationship between Bank of America and the Media Lab resulting in the Center for Future Banking. Engaged in industrial partnerships with Samsung, Intuit, Bank of America, BestBuy. Samsung Fellow 2005, ITRI Fellow 2006, Bank of America Fellow 2008. Executed from concept to deployment with team of two to five undergraduate students in deploying systems below and mentored 7 senior thesis projects.
* Social Saver: influence of social networks in mobile commerce http://mealtime.mit.edu/, http://menu.mit.edu/
* Open Transaction Network: research on mobile social commerce http://otn.media.mit.edu/
* Fluid Voice: multi-party ad-hoc mobile communications http://fluidvoice.media.mit.edu/

Intuit Product Manager
Mountain View, CA Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

Managed three products from conception, requirements, prototyping and development in the Intuit Payment Solutions. Products were in the space of social network and payments, data as asset and digital receipts. Coordinated people from different business units to building a common data analysis platform.

Bank of America Quantitative Research Associate
Charlotte, NC Jun 2008 - Aug 2008

Researched on transactions and social networks in the Credit Card Business. Developed business plan for social recommendations around credit card, mobile and payments.

Jun 2007 - Aug 2007

Directed the design of knowledge, event, data sharing portal for quantitative analysts across the enterprise. Prototyped the portal and social network visualizations. Currently it is being used by over 1000 people at the bank.

Middle East Education Through Technology (MEET) Instructor
Jerusalem, Israel Jun 2005 - Aug 2005

Taught Java programming to 18 students. Mentored the MEET-Jerusalem project, user contribution site for geo tagging and tourism, guiding 6 students in the development of prototype and writing of the business plan.

Reakosys Inc. Consultant
Seoul, Korea Feb 2004 - Aug 2004

Prototyped various Bluetooth applications for local multi user game. Business development for the Southeast Asian market. Voice applications integration with Daum services.

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 1998 - Sep 1999

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 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.

Publications Kwan Hong Lee. MIT Ph.D. Thesis. The Influences of Just-in-time Social Cloud on Real World Decisions. 2011.

Kwan Hong Lee, Andrew Lippman, Alex Sandy Pentland, Elenna R. Dugundji. The Impacts of Just-In-Time Social Networks on People's Choices in the Real World. The Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. October 9-11, 2011.

Kwan Hong Lee, Dawei Shen, Andrew Lippman, Erik Ross. Open Transaction Network: Connecting Communities of Experience through Mobile Transactions. The Second International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE). October 2010.

Kwan Hong Lee, Andrew Lippman. Who's in Charge? Mobile Phones as Platforms for Social Influence. Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN). September 24-25, 2010.

Coco Krumme, Kwan Hong Lee, Erik Ross. Concrete Budgeting: A Financial Planning Tool for Intertemporal Tradeoffs and Just-In-Time Information. IEEE 13th International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE). 2009.

Kwan Hong Lee et. al. Connected Consumption: Hidden Networks of Consumption. In Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference. January 2009.

Kwan Hong Lee et. al. Cocktail Party on the Mobile. In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Multimedia. December 2008.

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.

International Lived in Spain, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Korea and the US.

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