Kwan Hong Lee

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CTO at FineTune, Startup Advisor
Greater Boston Area

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  • FineTune
    CTO
    FineTune
    Jan 2017 - Current (9 years 4 months)
    Building a great organization and finetuning data and software engineering.
  • OpenView Venture Partners
    Software Architect
    OpenView Venture Partners
    May 2014 - Jan 2017 (2 years 9 months)
    Aligned business processes, software architecture, data integrations and user experiences to win the best deals.
  • POSTECH University
    Visiting Assistant Professor
    POSTECH University
    Mar 2013 - Feb 2014 (1 year)
    Proposed research and received funding for cultivating innovators education at Creative IT Engineering Department (CiTE) with 3 other faculty members. Advised various students on their research proposals and projects at CiTE. Started a summer internship/training program for CiTE graduate students at Boston startups. Taught User Centered Software Design and Software Entrepreneurship.
  • Redstar Ventures
    Technology Director
    Redstar Ventures
    Mar 2012 - Mar 2014 (2 years 1 month)
    Provided strategical guidance and technology roadmap for ideas and companies created by Redstar Ventures. Managed developers and designers in various phases of customer development, product development, and management changes. Developed social recommendation algorithm and messaging architecture for LoopIt (Redstar Ventures 1st company). Architected and developed the website and supply chain integrations for Vinely that involves workflows of party planning, e-commerce and various user roles (Redstar Venture's 3rd company). Managed Indian development team (Redstar Venture's 2nd company). Architected and led the development of an enterprise contact intelligence management tool. Developed customer development strategies, content and customer an
  • ViralTempo
    Founder
    ViralTempo
    Feb 2011 - Feb 2012 (1 year 1 month)
  • Intuit
    Product Management Payment Solutions Innovation
    Intuit
    Jun 2009 - Aug 2009 (3 months)
  • Bank of America
    Quantitative Researcher
    Bank of America
    Jun 2008 - Aug 2008 (3 months)
  • Bank of America
    Quantitative Research Associate
    Bank of America
    Jun 2007 - Aug 2007 (3 months)
  • MIT Media Lab
    Researcher at Viral Communications Group
    MIT Media Lab
    2004 - Sep 2011 (7 years 9 months)
    Kwan's research is at the intersection of behavioral science and mobile computing. His continual passion is to understand how mobile applications can be used to alleviate our cognitive biases. He has been also instrumental in engaging undergraduate students with research opportunities. He has interviewed over 150 MIT undergrads, worked with over 40 students as undergraduate researchers, trained them in software and team software development and have supervised over 7 senior theses. Some of the students have become founders of Hunch.com, Crocodoc, early employees of OMGPop, Autotegrity, Parse.com, senior engineer at Mopub, Ph.D. students at Harvard, tech director at Kenyan incubator, some have had small exits doing their own startups and hav
  • Bose Corporation
    Research Software Engineer
    Bose Corporation
    Sep 2001 - Sep 2003 (2 years 1 month)
  • MIT Media Lab
    Researcher at Speech and Mobility Group
    MIT Media Lab
    Sep 1999 - Aug 2001 (2 years)
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    System Architect
    GTE
    Sep 1998 - Sep 1999 (1 year 1 month)
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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Ph.D., Media Arts and Sciences
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    S.M., Media Arts and Sciences
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Cornell University
    M.Eng., Computer Science
    Cornell University
  • Cornell University
    B.S., Computer Science
    Cornell University
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    titleOpen Transaction Network: Connecting Communities of Experience through Mobile Transactions.
    Oct 2010
    Second International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE)
  • C
    Concrete Budgeting: A Financial Planning Tool for Intertemporal Tradeoffs and Just-In-Time Information
    2009
    IEEE 13th International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE)
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    Impromptu: managing networked audio applications for mobile users
    2004
    The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys)
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    Mediated Voice Communication via Mobile IP
    2002
    ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
  • P
    PATENT - Systems and Methods for Providing a Consumption Network
    us 12/244,058 Systems and methods for providing a consumption network are provided. A method according to the invention may include receiving purchase information on a mobile device and recording the purchasing information. The information may be transmitted to a central database. At the central database, the information may be recorded and transmitted from the central database to a pre-determined group of users. Alternatively, the information may be transmitted to a group of users directly from the mobile phone associated with the purchasing.
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    PATENT - System and Method for an Affinity Capture, User Feedback and Affinity Analysis
    us 14/209121 Various affinity systems and methods are provided to enable the capture of unique end-to-end purchase information. In some embodiments, the data collected through affinity systems and methods can be used to develop insights into the purchase making decision processes of users at any point of a shopping experience. The systems can host interaction platforms to facilitate the exchange of information, opinion, and/or suggestions on products, recommendations, and/or opinions. Further embodiments provide analysis of the captured data to derive insights regarding the appeal of products/services and the qualitative opinions of the users about the products/services.