• Complex System Design Lab.
• 042-350-3126 taesik.lee(at)kaist.ac.kr IE B/D E2-2 NO.2102
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Education

• 1997 . 02 Seoul National University Mechanical Engineering B.S.
• 1999 . 06 MIT Mechanical Engineering M.S.
• 2003 . 06 MIT Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.

Research experience

• 2004 ∼ 2007 : Assistant Director, MIT Park Center for Complex Systems
• 2007 ∼ 2012 : Assistant Professor, Dept of Industrial & System Engineering, KAIST
• 2012.09 ∼ : Tenured Professor, Dept of Industrial & System Engineering, KAIST
• 2017.09 ∼: Chairman, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, KAIST.

Research area

Healthcare analytics

Advances in healthcare evolve in three phases – discovery, development, and delivery. Many evidences from the history of medicine suggest that the delivery phase is in fact the bottleneck in this process. We use a broad spectrum of techniques and methods to solve problems in healthcare service delivery
Sample paper: “Combining syndromic surveillance and ILI data using particle filter for epidemic state estimation” [Link]

EMS system design and operations

Emergency Medical Service systems is one of the major ports of entry to healthcare systems, and plays an important role as a safety net for a society. We conduct various research on EMS system design and operations with emphasis on real world implementation .
Sample paper: “Simultaneous location of Trauma Centers and helicopters for emergency medical service planning” [Link]

Modeling & Simulation for Disaster Response

We conduct research on disaster response system. Specifically, we study the EMS system’s response to a disaster event to improve decision making in disaster response system. We collaborate with EMS practitioners and NEMA to implement into their future response system.
Sample paper: “Emergency Medical Service System Design Evaluator”[Link]

Modeling & Simulation in Defense Applications

We also conduct research in the domain of defense applications including network centric warfare simulation. We develop a modeling framework to simulate combat effectiveness arising from situational awareness and information superiority.
Sample paper: “Network-based metric for measuring combat effectiveness”[Link]

Selected publications

• Cho, S.H., Jang, H., Lee, T., and Turner, J.G., “Simultaneous Location of Trauma Centers and Helicopters for Emergency Medical Service Planning,” Operations Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/opre.2014.1287, June 13, 2014
• H. Nam, T. Lee, J. Lee, J. Lee, H. Chung, “Design of carrier-based offshore CCS system: Plant location and fleet assignment”, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Volume 12, January 2013, pp. 220-230/
• Shin, K. and Lee, T., “Container Loading and Unloading Scheduling for a Mobile Harbor System: A Global and Local Search Method,” Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Vol.25, No.4, pp 557-575, 2013
• Lee, Y. and Lee, T., “Network-based Metric for Measuring Combat Effectiveness”, Defense Science Journal, Vol. 64, no. 2, pp.115-122, 2014
• Lee, T. and Shin, H.Y., “Epidemic State Estimation with Syndromic Surveillance and ILI data using Particle Filter,” Proceeding for the 2013 International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering, Milan, Italy
• Lee, Y., Lee, T., “A measure to assess combat effectiveness using network representation,” Proceeding for the 2013 Summer Simulation Conference, Toronto, Canada
• Sung, I. and Lee, T., “Modeling requirements for an emergency medical service system design evaluator,” Proceeding for the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference, Berlin, Germany
• Lee, T., Jang, H., Cho, S-H., and Turner, J.G., “A Simulation-Based Iterative Method for a Trauma Center: Air Ambulance Location Problem,” Proceeding for the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference, Berlin, Germany

Professional activities

• INFORMS Pierskalla Award, Health Applicaitons Society, INFORMS, 2014
• Best Academic Achievement Award, Industrial and Systems Engineering, KAIST, 2013
• Honorable mention (Hochang Nam, Kyuhyeon Shin, Taesik Lee, “Communication and target acquisition modeling for a combat simulation in a network centric warfare environment”), International Military Science and Technology Fair, 2013
• Best Session Paper Award (Hoon Jand, Taesik Lee, “A data aggregation method for capacitated covering problems with gradual coverage”), 2012 KIIE Annual Conference, Ansan, Korea
• Best Session Paper Award (Youngwoo Lee, Taesik Lee, “A metric to measure NCW effect by using Lanchester model
• Best Session Paper Award (Hoon Jand, Yijin Kim, Taesik Lee, “A framework for building a simulation model to study overcrowding in ED
• Recognition of Excellence, Ministry of Science and Education, 2012
• Best Research Award, Industrial and Systems Engineering, KAIST, 2011
• Best Lecturer Award, Industrial and Systems Engineering, KAIST, 2010
• Creative Lecture Award, KAIST, 2009

Teaching

• IE577: System Design and Engineering
• ED100: Introduction to Design and Communication
• IE573: Healthcare Service Delivery System
• IE251: Manufacturing Process Innovation
• IE453: Conceptual Design for Engineering Products
• IE481: Introduction to Venture Capital Investment

Patent

• “System Integration based on Time-dependent Complexity”, 등록년도: 2004, 등록번호: US6701205 B2

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