KAIST emeritus professor Lee wins AIS LEO Award

By Kim Bo-eun

Lee Jae-kyu / Courtesy of KAIST

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Professor Emeritus Lee Jae-kyu has won the Association for Information Systems (AIS)' LEO Award for this year, the school said Monday.

The AIS, comprised of members from around 100 countries, is a professional association for individuals and organizations who lead the research, teaching and practice of information systems worldwide.

The LEO award, established in 1999 by the AIS Council, recognizes outstanding individuals in the field of information systems. All recipients are scholars who are assessed to have made a global impact in the field.

Lee is the first Korean to receive the LEO award.

The AIS said Lee was recognized for his research and development in preventative cybersecurity, which is a major part of the efforts he leads to realize what Lee has named "Bright Internet."

Lee served as a faculty member of KAIST for 31 years from 1985, until he finished his tenure as HHI chair professor.

He is currently China's Xi'an Jiaotong University's Bright Internet Research Center's director and a distinguished professor of the school of management.

Lee is the founder of Principles for the Bright Internet and founded the Bright Internet Research Center at KAIST and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

He is an AIS fellow and served as president of the organization from 2015 to 2016.

Lee was the president of academic societies such as the Korea Society of Management Information Systems and Korea Society of Intelligence Information Systems. He received best paper awards from major conferences on over 13 occasions.

"I am honored to be designated the first Korean winner of the AIS' honorable LEO Award," Lee said. "Based on my life-long efforts for developments in the field, I will continue to contribute to the research and development of information media systems."