Kunwoo Lee is a professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University in Korea. He received his BS (1978) from Seoul National University, and MS (1981) and PhD (1984) in mechanical engineering from MIT. He was previously an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a visiting associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and a visiting professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He has been one of the Editors-in-Chief of Computer-Aided Design from 2004 to 2014, and the editor in chief of the Journal of Computational Design & Engineering since 2014.  He also has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Computers and Information Science in Engineering of ASME.  Currently, he is a member and the vice president of The National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) and a member of The Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He has been a director of Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology in Korea from 2004 to 2009 and a dean of college of engineering of Seoul National University from 2013 to 2017. His research interests include CAD system supporting multi-resolution modeling, software for 3D printers, medical device design, and integrated framework in which products can be designed based on simultaneous simulation of products and human operator.