Su-In Lee

Su-In Lee (Korean이수인; born 1979) is a South Korean and American computer scientist known for her research on explainable artificial intelligence and its applications in biomedical research. She is a Boeing Endowed Professor of Computer Science in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.[1]

Education and Career

Lee was born in Busan in 1979.[2] She became a student at Seoul Science High School, and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from KAIST in 2001.[3] She went to Stanford University for graduate study in computer science, and completed her Ph.D. in 2009 in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory[4] with the dissertation Machine learning approaches to understand the genetic basis for complex traits supervised by Daphne Koller.[3][5]

After postdoctoral research as a visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Lee joined the University of Washington in 2010. She was given a Paul G. Allen Career Development Professorship in 2021, and was named as a Boeing Endowed Professor of Computer Science in 2025.[3]

Recognition

Lee was the 2024 laureate of the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering,[2] and the 2024 recipient of the ISCB Innovator Award of the International Society for Computational Biology.[6]

She was named as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2024, "for development of foundational AI principles and techniques to catalyze biomedical discoveries and insights and advance human health",[7] and as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2025.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Su-In Lee", Faculty, University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, retrieved 2025-05-22
  2. ^ a b Previous laureates, Ho-Am Foundation, retrieved 2025-05-22
  3. ^ a b c "Professor Su-In Lee", Lee Lab, University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, retrieved 2025-05-22
  4. ^ "Su-In Lee – Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education", retrieved 2026-03-16
  5. ^ Su-In Lee at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ ISCB Innovator Award, International Society for Computational Biology, retrieved 2025-05-22
  7. ^ "Su-In Lee, Ph.D.", AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2024, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, retrieved 2025-05-22
  8. ^ ISCB Fellows, International Society for Computational Biology, retrieved 2025-05-22