Bongshin Lee

Bongshin Lee is a Korean-American computer scientist whose research concerns information visualization, human–computer interaction, the quantified self, and the automated conversion of sketches into data visualizations. She is a senior principal researcher for Microsoft Research.

Education and career
Lee studied computer science at Yonsei University in Seoul. She earned a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1996, and a master's degree in 1998, advised by Yoon-Chul Choy. After two years as a software engineer in South Korea, she went to the University of Maryland, College Park for continued study in computer science, earning a second master's degree in 2002 and completing her Ph.D. in 2006. Her dissertation, Interactive Visualizations for Trees and Graphs, was supervised by Ben Bederson.

She joined Microsoft Research in 2006, and has been a senior principal researcher there since 2019.

Recognition
Lee was named to the IEEE Visualization Academy in 2020.