Byeong Gi Lee

Candidate's Statement

We need to better serve our members around the world by embracing global culture and values in ComSoc’s activities. For the past 60 years ComSoc has established a core communications community equipped with the highest standard of technical publications and conferences. Better services for our members, globally, and for the industries in which they work are essential to turn around the membership decline of recent years and make a convincing case for the value of ComSoc membership.

If elected, I will use my proven leadership and solid experience on a global scale to work very hard to extend our electronic publications, community web sites, tutorials, web seminars, industry-oriented programs, and other services to benefit all our members worldwide, while fully maintaining the traditional scholarly excellence of our publications and conferences. In addition, I will assure fiscal responsibility and transparency so that members know how their money is being spent. I will encourage new initiatives in the interests of our membership and the worldwide information/communications engineering community that best apply our own surpluses, when we have them, in addition to actively seeking grants from the IEEE and other sources.

Byeong Gi Lee is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK). He received his Ph.D. degree from UCLA and worked for Granger Associates, Santa Clara, and AT&T Bell Laboratories, North Andover, before joining the faculty of Seoul National University, where he served as Vice Chancellor for Research and Director of the Institute of New Media and Communications.

Byeong’s services for IEEE include: · ComSoc Vice President-Member Relations, 2008-09,  · ComSoc Vice President-Membership Development, 2006-07, · ComSoc Director-Magazines, 2002-03, · ComSoc Director-Membership Programs Development, 2000-01,    · ComSoc Director-Asia Pacific Region, 1998-99, · ComSoc Member-at-Large to the Board of Governors, 2000-02, and other editorial and conference related services.

Byeong’s services and experiences overall includes: · Co-founder and Steering Committee Chair, Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), · Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), · Co-founder and Steering Committee Chair, Joint Conference of Communications & Information, · Co-founder and Vice President, Accreditation Board of Engineering Education of Korea, · Co-founder and President, Korea Society for Engineering Education, · Co-founder and President, Citizens’ Coalition for Scientific Society of Korea, · President, Korea Information & Communications Society (KICS), · Member, Presidential Advisory Council on Science & Technology of Korea, · Member, Presidential Advisory Committee for Policy Planning of Korea, · Member, Policy Advisory Committee of Ministry of Justice of Korea,