Biography:Su-In Lee
Su-In Lee (Korean: 이수인; born 1979) is a South Korean and American computer scientist known for her research on explainable artificial intelligence and its applications in biomedical research. She is a Boeing Endowed Professor of Computer Science in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.[1]
Education and Career
Lee was born in Busan in 1979.[2] She became a student at Seoul Science High School, and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from KAIST in 2001.[3] She went to Stanford University for graduate study in computer science, and completed her Ph.D. in 2009 in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory[4] with the dissertation Machine learning approaches to understand the genetic basis for complex traits supervised by Daphne Koller.[3][5]
After postdoctoral research as a visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Lee joined the University of Washington in 2010. She was given a Paul G. Allen Career Development Professorship in 2021, and was named as a Boeing Endowed Professor of Computer Science in 2025.[3]
Recognition
Lee was the 2024 laureate of the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering,[2] and the 2024 recipient of the ISCB Innovator Award of the International Society for Computational Biology.[6]
She was named as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2024, "for development of foundational AI principles and techniques to catalyze biomedical discoveries and insights and advance human health",[7] and as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2025.[8]
References
- ↑ "Su-In Lee", Faculty (University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering), https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/su-in-lee/, retrieved 2025-05-22
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Previous laureates, Ho-Am Foundation, https://www.hoamfoundation.org/eng/award/part.asp, retrieved 2025-05-22
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Professor Su-In Lee", Lee Lab (University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering), https://aims.cs.washington.edu/su-in-lee, retrieved 2025-05-22
- ↑ "Su-In Lee – Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education" (in en-US). https://bime.uw.edu/faculty/su-in-lee/.
- ↑ Su-In Lee at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ ISCB Innovator Award, International Society for Computational Biology, https://www.iscb.org/iscb-awards/iscb-innovator-award, retrieved 2025-05-22
- ↑ "Su-In Lee, Ph.D.", AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2024 (American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering), https://aimbe.org/college-of-fellows/COF-9069/, retrieved 2025-05-22
- ↑ ISCB Fellows, International Society for Computational Biology, https://www.iscb.org/fellows, retrieved 2025-05-22
External links
- AI for bioMedical Sciences (AIMS) Lab
- Su-In Lee publications indexed by Google Scholar
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