Curriculum Vitae

Jin Ha Lee
501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 721-1213
jinlee1@uiuc.edu 

EDUCATION

PhD in Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, anticipated graduation date: Dec 2007
Dissertation Title: Analysis of Information Features in Natural Language Queries for Music Information Retrieval: Use Patterns and Accuracy
Dissertation Director: J. Stephen Downie
Dissertation Committee: Allen Renear, Linda C. Smith, David Dubin, and Sally Jo Cunningham

M.S. in Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, 2002

B.A. in Library and Information Science, summa cum laude, Ewha University, Seoul, Korea, 2000 [Attended University of Iowa as an exchange student, Fall 1998–Spring 1999]

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Information organization and access
Music/Multimedia information seeking and retrieval 
Knowledge representation and information modeling 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004–2007
Projects: International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) and Human Use of Music Information Retrieval Systems (HUMIRS)
Principal Investigator: J. Stephen Downie
• Conducted various user studies including a large-scale survey, and content analysis of real-life music information queries
• Contributed in selecting test queries and collecting music data for MIREX (Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange) tasks
• Collaborated in establishing a framework for collecting human relevance judgments of music similarity
• Assisted in setting up Wikis for MIREX contests and organizing MIREX abstracts collections

Research Assistant, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
Project: Philosophical issues in defining a musical work
Advisor: Allen Renear
• Explored various notions of a musical work in aesthetics (Levinson, Kivy, Goodman, etc.) and their relevance to how we define a musical work in the LIS context

Research Assistant, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
Project: Representing traditional Korean musical notation in XML
Advisors: Allen Renear and J. Stephen Downie
• Explored issues in representing, in XML, a genre of traditional Korean music which has a distinctive notation system called Chôgganbo

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant, GSLIS, UIUC, 2003-2004
Information Organization and Access (LEEP: online course), Fall 2004
• Collaborated on developing syllabus and overall course structure
• Graded weekly assignments 

Libraries, Information, and Society (on-campus course for LEEP students), Summer 2004
• Led two discussion sections
• Counseled students upon request and advised individuals on selecting future courses
• Collaborated on exam development and assigned all grades of the two sections

Libraries, Information, and Society, Spring 2004
• Led two discussion sections and counseled students upon request
• Collaborated on exam development and assigned all grades of the two sections

Information Organization and Access, Fall 2003
• Led two discussion sections and counseled students upon request
• Graded all written work including final exams of the two sections

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Assistant, Office of Planning and Budgeting, UIUC Library, Urbana, 2001-2002
• Designed and managed the website for the office
• Created a bibliography of works related to library planning and budgeting

Librarian, Intellectual Property Team, LG Chem, Seoul, Korea, 2000
• Full responsibility for providing online reference service within the company

Inventory Assistant, Donga Newspaper Company, Seoul, Korea, 1998
• Assisted in cataloging the photograph collection
• Participated in the full inventory of the library book collection

UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Volunteer Interpreter, World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council, Seoul, Korea, 2006
• Assisted IFLA President and President-Elect in various duties

Lecture Committee, GSLIS, UIUC, 2005
• Communicated students’ suggestions as one of the student representatives
• Collaborated on organizing the GSLIS Lecture Series

Faculty Search Committee, GSLIS, UIUC, 2005
• Assisted in organizing meetings with the faculty candidates and graduate students
• Communicated the students’ feedback as the student representative

Conference Volunteer, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2005, Denver, Colorado, 2005
• Assisted in monitoring sessions and setting up technology facilities

International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Mentor, Center for Teaching Excellence, UIUC, Fall 2004 & Spring 2005
• Facilitated the ITA Share Sessions

Panelist, “Time Management,” All-Campus Teaching Assistants Orientation, Center for Teaching Excellence, UIUC, Fall 2004
• Advised teaching assistants on time management issues

Lab Staff Volunteer, The Learning Resources Lab (LRL), GSLIS, UIUC, 2000–2002
• Administered the lab and assisted the users in various computer tasks

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Downie, J. S., Lee, J. H., Gruzd, A. A., and Jones, M. C. (2007). Toward an understanding of similarity judgments for music digital library evaluation. Proceedings of the ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2007. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [In print].

Lee, J. H., Renear, A., and Smith, L. C. (2006). Known-item searching: Variations on a concept. Proceedings of the 69th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.

Lee, J. H., Jones. M. C., and Downie, J. S. (2006). Factors affecting the response rates of real-life MIR queries. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2006, Victoria, Canada, 371-372. [poster]

Renear, A. H., Choi, Y., Lee, J. H., and Schmidt, S. (2006). Axiomatizing FRBR: An exercise in the formal ontology of cultural objects. Digital Humanities 2006 Conference Abstracts, Paris, France, 164-166.

Lee, J. H., Downie, J. S., and Cunningham, S. J. (2005). Challenges in cross-cultural/multilingual music information seeking. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2005, London, UK, 1-7.

Lee, J. H., Hu, X., and Downie, J. S. (2005). Q&A websites: Rich research resources for contextualizing information retrieval behaviors. Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 2005 Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context (IRIX), Salvador, Brazil, 33-36.

Downie, J. S., Renear, A., Mathes, A., Medina, K., Dubin, D., and Lee, J. H. (2005). Modelling complex multimedia relationships in the humanities computing context: Are Dublin Core and FRBR up to the task? ACH/ALLC 2005 Conference Abstracts, Victoria, Canada, 50-52.

Renear, A., Lee, J. H., Choi, Y., and Xiang, X. (2005). Exhibition: A problem for conceptual modeling in the humanities. ACH/ALLC 2005 Conference Abstracts, Victoria, Canada, 176-179.

Lee, J. H. and Downie, J. S. (2004). Survey of music information needs, uses, and seeking behaviours: Preliminary findings. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2004, Barcelona, Spain, 441-446.

Lee, J. H., Downie, J. S., and Renear, A. H. (2002). Representing Korean traditional musical notation in XML. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2002, Paris, France, 263-264. [poster]

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Lee, J. H. (2007). Analysis of Information Features in Natural Language Queries for Music Information Retrieval: Use Patterns and Accuracy. Poster presented at the ALISE 2007 Annual Conference, 15-18 January 2007, Seattle, Washington. [non-refereed]

Lee, J. H., Renear, A., and Smith, L. C. (2006). Known-item searching: Variations on a concept. Paper presented at the 69th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 3-8 November 2006, Austin, Texas. [refereed]

Hu, X., Downie, J. S., and Lee, J. H. (2006). Stylistic analysis on reviews of humanities objects. Poster presented at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, 5-6 November 2006, Chicago, Illinois. [refereed]

Lee, J. H., Downie, J. S., and Cunningham, S. J. (2005). Challenges in cross-cultural/multilingual music information seeking. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2005, 11-15 September 2005, London, UK. [refereed]

Lee, J. H. and Downie, J. S. (2004). Survey of music information needs, uses, and seeking behaviours: Preliminary findings. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2004, 10-14 October 2004, Barcelona, Spain. [refereed]

Lee, J. H. (2003). Music Representation Systems. Poster presented at the Extreme Markup Languages 2003, 4-8 August 2003, Montreal, Canada. [non-refereed]

Lee, J. H., Downie, J. S., and Renear, A. H. (2002). Representing Korean traditional musical notation in XML. Poster presented at the Third International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2002, 13-17 October 2002, Paris, France. [refereed]

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