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About Wayne de Fremery

Wayne de Fremery is Professor of Information Science and Entrepreneurship, as well as Director of the Francoise O. Lepage Center for Global Innovation, at the Barowsky School of Business. Previously, he was an associate professor of Korean Studies in the School of Media, Arts, and Science at Sogang University in South Korea, where he lived for twenty years. He currently represents the Korean National Body at ISO as Convener of a working group on document description, processing languages, and semantic metadata (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 WG 9). He is also owner of Tamal Vista Insights LLC, an independent producer of software that democratizes access to artificial intelligence, as well as Director of the Korea Text Initiative at the Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea.  

Wayne’s research integrates approaches from literary studies, bibliography, and design, as well as information science and artificial intelligence. He is particularly interested in issues associated with cultural continuity and sustainability, especially the role that innovation plays in both. Wayne’s degrees are from Harvard University (PhD, East Asian Languages and Civilizations), Seoul National University (MA, Korean studies/ Korean literature), and Whitman College (BA, Economics).  

Positions

2022 - Present Director, Dominican University of California ‐ Francoise O. Lepage Center of Global Innovation
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2022 - Present Professor, Dominican University of California ‐ Barowsky School of Business
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2016 - 2022 Associate Professor, Sogang University, Seoul ‐ School of Media, Arts, and Science
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2016 - 2018 Chair, Sogang University, Seoul ‐ Department of Global Korean Studies
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2012 - 2016 Assistant Professor, Sogang University, Seoul ‐ School of Integrated Knowledge
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2008 Teaching Fellow, Harvard Summer School & Ewha University, Seoul
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2007 Adjunct Lecturer, Yonsei University, Seoul
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2007 Adjunct Lecturer, Korea University, Seoul
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2006 Adjunct Lecturer, Bowdoin College
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2005 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
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Research Interests

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Professional Service and Affiliations

2021 - Present Member, Association for Information Science and Technology
2017 - Present Member, International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
2016 - Present Editorial Board Member, AZALEA: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture
2014 - Present Founding Board Member, Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea
2012 - Present Reviewer for MIT Press, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Acta Koreana, Korea Journal
2012 - Present Reviewer for MIT Press, Han’guk munhwa yŏn’gu
2012 - Present Reviewer for MIT Press, Korea Journal
2012 - Present Reviewer for MIT Press, Korea Studies Promotion Service
2012 - Present Reviewer for MIT Press, Seoul Journal of Korean Studies
2012 - Present Founding Board Member, Sogang Global Korea Initiative
2011 - Present Affiliate, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, UC Berkeley
2011 - Present Member, Modern Language Association
2009 - Present Member, Kŭndae Sŏji Yŏn’guhoe (Modern Bibliography Society [of Korea])
2006 - Present Member, Association for Asian Studies
2006 - 2008 Researcher, Institute of the Humanities, Seoul National University
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Honors and Awards

  • 2003 - 2004 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (East Asia)
  • 2004–2005 Northern California Publishers & Authors Association’s Best Book of Poetry for Traveler Maps: Poems by Ko Un.
  • 2005 PMA, Independent Book Publishers Association’s Benjamin Franklin Award: Best Book of Poetry/ Literary Criticism for Traveler Maps: Poems by Ko Un.
  • 2006–2008 International Communication Foundation Korean Literature Translation Fellowship
  • 2010 Korean Literature Translation Institute Award for Instances: Selected Poems by Jeongrye Choi. Translated with Brenda Hillman and Jeongrye Choi
  • 2010 Academy of Korean Studies Fellowship
  • 2010–2011 Harvard Korea Institute, Dissertation Completion Fellowship
  • 2012–2013 Sogang University Research Grant, with Kim Dongtaek and Choi Kiyong
  • 2014 Award for [teaching] excellence, outstanding syllabus for “Introduction to Korean Literature,” Sogang University
  • 2016–2019 Private donation to the Korea Text Initiative to produce Sijo—an international journal of poetry and song
  • 2016–2019 Microsoft Cloud for Good Grant to the Korea Text Initiative for Project Mo文oN
  • 2018 Pushcart Prize nomination for translation of the poem “Winter Strawberries” by Jeongrye Choi
  • 2019 Seagate Data for Good Award to support “Sijo Reborn as Data,” an exhibition at the Corner Gallery, Seoul
  • 2019 Korean Literature Translation Institute Award to the Korea Text Initiative to support Sijo—Blue Streams of Tradition, a documentary short film about the Korean art form known as sijo
  • 2019 Korean Literature Translation Institute Award to the Korea Text Initiative to support Sijo—an international journal of poetry and song
  • 2020 National Library of Korea Research Grant, “Improving Automated Text Encoding of Korean Materials—a Deep Learning Approach”
  • 2020 [South Korean] Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Citation for contribution to the development of the National Library of Korea. Related to research done on deep learning approaches to automated text encoding of Korean materials
  • 2021 National Library of Korea Research Grant, “Deep Learning Approaches to Optical Character Recognition for Historical Korean Texts”

Education

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2011 PhD, Harvard University ‐ East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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2002 MA, Seoul National University ‐ Korean Studies; Korean Literature
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1995 BA, Whitman College ‐ Economics
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Contact Information

Francoise O. Lepage Center for Global Innovation
Dominican University of California
50 Acacia Ave.
San Rafael, CA 94901

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Dissertation (1)

Conference Papers and Professional Presentations (30)

This is a collection of Presentations from 2017 - Present. To see a full list, please see my CV