Sang Won Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. His work lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and computer music, exploring how to computationally mediate musical collaboration and enable novel musical expression. More broadly, he has applied the findings from interactive music to applications in a variety of fields, including crowdsourcing, design, writing, and programming. These systems help people collaboratively create artifacts and have liveness in their collaborative process with others. His research vision is to understand how we can design and develop interactive systems that facilitate empathy.
He holds a Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the Seoul National University and an M.S. degree in Music Technology from Georgia Tech. He has been an active author in top computer music conferences like New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) and International Conference on Live Coding(ICLC), as well as broader Human-Computer interaction venues like ACM UIST and ACM CHI. In addition to academic research publications, he has also presented his research works in the form of music performances in peer-reviewed venues such as NIME, Art-CHI, and ICMC, and is a winner of the International Computer Music Association – Music Award 2016 for his composition, Live Writing: Gloomy Streets.
He holds a Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the Seoul National University and an M.S. degree in Music Technology from Georgia Tech. He has been an active author in top computer music conferences like New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) and International Conference on Live Coding(ICLC), as well as broader Human-Computer interaction venues like ACM UIST and ACM CHI. In addition to academic research publications, he has also presented his research works in the form of music performances in peer-reviewed venues such as NIME, Art-CHI, and ICMC, and is a winner of the International Computer Music Association – Music Award 2016 for his composition, Live Writing: Gloomy Streets.