Dr. Lee is a Professor and Director of the Combustion and Fire Engineering Laboratory (CFEL) in the Incheon National University. His research focuses on combustion and propulsion problems in gas turbine systems. He has more than 12 years of experience in both academia and industry on a number of joint government and industry projects to develop the next-generation, ultra-low emissions, high efficiency, high reliability, fuel flexible gas turbine combustors for both land-based power generation and aircraft propulsion applications. His research interests also include the development of various laser-based optical diagnostic techniques and sensors with applications to combustion/propulsion systems, the combustion instability control, combustion performance test, and the reliable combustion of new fuels such as coal derived synthetic gas, dimethyl ether and synthetic natural gas. He has been collaborating with many major gas turbine/aircraft industries such as MHI, DHI, Samsung Techwin, Vitzurotech and etc. Recently, he received a KEPCO-sponsored grant in 2015 to do research on design for combustion diagnostic issues in conjunction with KEPRI and KESERI as industrial partners.