Jong Sung Lee

jonglee1@illinois.edu

Deputy Associate Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); Lecturer, Urban and Regional Planning

Research Focus: Dr. Lee’s research interests focus on designing, developing and operating end-to-end cyberenvironments supporting various research and education communities including hazard management, agricultural food market system, environmental engineering, water management, sensor web, etc.

Biography: Dr. Lee is Deputy Associate Director of National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked at NCSA since 2006. He received his B.S. In Urban Planning and Engineering from Yonsei University, S. Korea in 1997; M.S. of Urban Planning and Ph.D. in Regional Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and 2005 respectively. He co-leads the Innovative Software and Data Analysis Division at NCSA. His research interests focus on designing, developing and operating end-to-end cyberenvironments supporting various research and education communities. He is particularly interested in the role of geographic information sciences and systems in cyberenvironments. Current representative projects include Ergo: Seismic Risk Assessment Systems, NSF DIBBs (Data Infrastructure Building Blocks): BrownDog , Developing Great Lakes to Gulf (GLTG) Virtual Observatory, KISTI-NCSA Science Gateway, Semantic GeoStreaming Toolkit, and DataWolf: Scientific Workflow Systems.

Mission Statement: Dr. Lee is collaborating with various scientific domains such as hazard management, agricultural food market system, environmental engineering, water management, CFD (Computation Fluid Dynamics) simulation, sensor web, etc.

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