Biography
Henry Jong-Hyeon Lee is Senior Manager of Information Security Program at the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer for the Province of British Columbia, Canada, where he works on developing and managing the Information Security Program for the Government of British Columbia. Among his responsibilities are the government information security policy management and research on current security issues.
Prior to joining the Government of British Columbia, Dr. Lee was a co-founder, Chief Executive Officer (2000-2003) and Chief Technology Officer (2003-2006) of FILOSAFE Corporation, a Vancouver-based software vendor providing secure collaboration suites; a founder and CEO (1995-1999) of SOFTFORUM Inc., a specialized software house in computer security, that had its initial public offering in 2001; and a researcher (1997-1998) at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. He had also worked as a senior member of research staff (1991-1996) in mobile communications at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute.
Dr. Lee received his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Sogang University. His studies then took him to POSTECH where he completed his Master of Science. After working in a large telecommunication research center for five years, his research interest brought him to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom where he completed his Ph.D. in computer science.
Dr. Lee is a Professional Engineer in Software Engineering, registered in British Columbia, Canada. He is an adjunct assistant professor at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada. He is a senior member of the Association of Computing Machinery and professional member of IEEE/Computer Society.
Dr. Lee has published books, papers and technical reports in Information Security, Cryptography, Software Engineering, Mobile Communications and Mathematics. He also holds various certificates in information technology, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation, and Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA) Chartered Foundation (SCF).
His current research interests include information security, advanced research program management, risk management, volatility and econometrics.