Professor Lee Jaegyu of KAIST, First Korean Recipient of the Rio Prize

Jaekyu Lee, Professor Emeritus, College of Business, KAIST

[Asia Economy Reporter Junho Hwang] Professor Jaekyu Lee, Emeritus Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), was selected on the 14th as the first Korean recipient of the LEO Award from the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

AIS is the largest academic organization in the field of information systems and management information systems, with over 5,000 researchers from more than 100 countries participating. Since 1999, AIS has been awarding the LEO Award, named after the world's first commercial business application of computers. This award is the highest honor in the information systems academic community and is given to scholars who have had a global impact in this field.

Professor Lee received this award for his contributions in advocating and researching the vision of a "Bright Internet," a paradigm of preventive security that eliminates the causes of cybercrime and terrorism in advance. He is developing a future internet that can simultaneously ensure preventive security and privacy.

He served as a professor and distinguished professor at KAIST for 31 years starting in 1985. He also held positions as Dean of the College of Business and Dean of the Graduate School of Techno-Management. After retiring, he has been working as a distinguished professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, developing the "Bright Internet" through industry-academia cooperation. In particular, considering that 85% of cybercrimes originate overseas, he has proposed a Korea-China joint research plan to prevent the causes of overseas cybercrime.

He also served as president of AIS as a fellow member. He has received 13 domestic and international academic awards for numerous published papers and established the KAIST Graduate School of Green Growth in 2013 to foster green talent for climate change response and a sustainable future.

Professor Jaekyu Lee stated, "I am honored to be the first Korean recipient of the LEO Award," and added, "I will continue to contribute to the advancement of information media systems research."

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