Duck-Joo Lee
Professor
Bio
Prof. Lee earned a Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1985 and served at NASA Ames Research Center between 1985 and 1987. In 1988, he got a faculty position at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). In 2012, he founded and served as general chair of the 1st Asian/Australian Rotorcraft Forum. From 2015 to 2017, he held a position as VP of the American Helicopter Society. He is currently VP of the Korean Drone Industry Promotion Association. His free online lecture on K-MOOC, 鈥淯nderstanding of Helicopter Flights; Limits and Challenges鈥�, is popular among students and engineers in that field. He was invited to Boeing, Max Planck Institute, and Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden to solve the jet/fan noise problem and study the man/machine interface. He tries to find out the cause of and solution to human cognitive errors, which interfere with controlling the machine. He suffered from severe claustrophobia, and through the practice of meditation he could identify and remove the root cause of this condition. He has ever since devoted himself to scientifically studying the principles and effects of meditation in order to heighten the general public鈥檚 awareness of the importance of meditation. He provided gave two humanistic education courses 鈥淣ow is the turning point of your life鈥� and 鈥淧ursuing and recovering human nature鈥� at KAIST. He provided the humanistic education courses 鈥淣ow is the turning point of your life鈥� and 鈥淧ursuing and recovering human nature鈥� at KAIST. He wrote a series of seven articles, published in the 鈥淪cience of Mind鈥� section of the Korean journal 鈥淪cience Dong-A鈥�. Since then, he has been is working on developing and teaching education for human completion and school meditation as president of Academic Society for Human Completion. He gives speeches on how to succeed in the 4th industrial revolution.
