Bongshin Lee | |
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Education | Yonsei University University of Maryland |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | Microsoft Research |
Thesis | Interactive Visualizations for Trees and Graphs (2006) |
Doctoral advisor | Ben Bederson |
Other academic advisors | Yoon-Chul Choy |
Website | bongshiny |
Bongshin Lee is a Korean-American computer scientist whose research concerns information visualization, human–computer interaction, the quantified self, and the automated conversion of sketches into data visualizations.[1] She is a senior principal researcher for Microsoft Research.[2]
Lee studied computer science at Yonsei University in Seoul. She earned a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1996, and a master's degree in 1998, advised by Yoon-Chul Choy. After two years as a software engineer in South Korea, she went to the University of Maryland, College Park for continued study in computer science, earning a second master's degree in 2002 and completing her Ph.D. in 2006.[3] Her dissertation, Interactive Visualizations for Trees and Graphs, was supervised by Ben Bederson.[4]
She joined Microsoft Research in 2006, and has been a senior principal researcher there since 2019.[3]
Lee was named to the IEEE Visualization Academy in 2020.[5]