Bongshin Lee

Biography:

Bongshin Lee is a Professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, since March 2024. Before this, she was a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, USA. Lee conducts research on data visualization, human-computer interaction, and human-data interaction, with an overarching goal to empower everyone to achieve their goals by leveraging data, visualization, and technological advancements. She explores innovative ways to help people interact with data, by supporting easy and effective data collection, data exploration & analysis, and data-driven communication. Lee is the Chair of the IEEE VGTC (Visualization and Graphics Technical Community) and a member of the ACM ISS Steering Committee, and currently serves as the Papers Co-Chair for CHI 2025. She served as the General Co-Chair for ISS 2019 and IEEE PacificVis 2017, Subcommittee Co-Chair for ACM CHI 2021 & 2022 (for the Visualization Subcommittee), Overall Papers Co-Chair for VIS 2021 & 2022, as well as Papers Co-Chair for IEEE InfoVis 2015 & 2016, and IEEE PacificVis 2018. Lee was inducted into the IEEE Visualization Academy in 2020. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2006.