Lee, Yun Keun

Senior Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, ETRI

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ph.D in Information & communications engineering, Aug, 1998
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, M.S. in Electronics engineering, 1988
Seoul National University, B.S. in Control & instrumentation Engineering, 1986

<Career>

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. 2005 ~ present
 •  2005 ~ 2014 : Manager of speech processing research team
  - Developed speech recognition & synthesis core technology
 •  2014 ~ 2016 : Manager of automatic speech translation & AI research department
  - Developed GenieTalk, the world's leading automatic speech translation system
  - Developed Deep QA technology ExoBrain to secure Korea's unique artificial intelligence technology
  - Project leader of ‘Development of dialog based speech interface technology’
 •  2016 ~ 2017 : Manager of speech intelligence research group
  - Developed 2nd version of GenieTalk, supports zero-effort automatic speech translation of 8 languages to apply PyeongChang Winter Olympic

      Games
  - Project leader of ‘Development of spontaneous speech dialog processing for language learning’
 •  2017 ~ present : Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory

Voiceware Co. Ltd. Chief Technology Officer. 2000 ~ 2004
Operated a research institute of Voiceware to develop speech recognition and synthesis technology and products

LG Co. Ltd. Senior Engineer. 1988 ~ 2000
Worked as an engineer to develop speech recognition and synthesis technology and products