The Nonidentity of Society and Interaction

KAIST SOCIAL COMPUTING LAB

Wonjae Lee (이원재)

Ph.D. in Sociology, The University of Chicago, 2009.
BA, MA in Sociology, Yonsei University, 1997, 1999.

Social Network Analysis
Social Exchange Theory
Economic Sociology
Data Science

wnjlee_at_kaist.ac.kr​​​


PROFESSOR image

Mir Majid Molaie

Ph.D. Student

Jiyoung Cho

Ph.D. Student

Jaehong Kim

Ph.D. Student

Dahyun Ryu

M.S. Student

Siwei Qin

M.S. Student

Seoyeon Lee

M.S. Student

Seongchan Park

M.S. Student

Yongjae Kim

M.S. Student

Heeyoon Choi

M.S. Student

Seoyoung Park

M.S. Student

Wendi Tan

M.S. Student

"Factors Influencing Healthcare Technology Acceptance in Older Adults Through TAM and UTAUT: Meta-Analysis." JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH, 2025.

https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.65269

Read More  

"How Do Moral Emotions Shape Political Participation? A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Online Petitions Using Language Models." The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024.

https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.963/

Read More  

"Identity Experiment in the Metaverse: Making Sense of Zepeto Users’ Avatar Use." International Journal of Communication, Volume 18 (2024)

https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21138

Read More  

"How I became a Hallyu Scholar" Curatorship of Korean Studies, CEASIA (Asian Studies School), Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), 2024, March 11

Read More  

"Sketches for a Self-Analysis": "Anamnesis" and "Unknowable Certainty" IT:U x Ars Electronica FOUNDING LAB, 2024, January 25.

https://ars.electronica.art/university/de/anamnesis/

Read More  

"Do political parties always prefer loyalists? Evidence from South Korea." PLOS ONE, Volume 18 (11), November 2 2023.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102326

Read More  

"Delineating development trends of nanotechnology in the semiconductor industry: Focusing on the relationship between science and technology by employing structural topic model" Technology in Society, Volume 74, August 2023, July 25.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102326

Read More  

"KOME(Korean Online Moral Emotion): A Korean Dataset of Fine-Grained Moral Emotions" Korea Computer Congress 2023, June.

https://github.com/kjhkjh95/Moral_Emotion_Dataset

Read More  

"MindTerior: A Mental Healthcare Game with Metaphoric Gamespace and Effective Activities for Mitigating Mild Emotional Difficulties" CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023, April 19.

https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3583831

Read More  

"What Is the Draw of the Metaverse?: Personality Correlates of Zepeto Use Motives and Their Associations With Psychological Well-Being" Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking , 2023, February 24.

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/cyber.2022.0164

Read More  

"Media coverage of the conflicts over the 4th Industrial Revolution in the Republic of Korea from 2016 to 2020: a text-mining approach" Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy, 2022, August 31.

http://dx.doi.org/10.7545/ajip.2022.11.2.202

Read More  

"Economic corollaries of personalized recommendations" Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2022, May 13.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2022.103003

Read More  
Bachelor's
Computer and Information Technology
Purdue University


Master's
Metaverse
Graduate School of Metaverse, KAIST - Feb. 2025.
Bachelor's
Architecture and Urbanism 
Federal University of Uberlandia


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2025.

Website
Bachelor's
Business Administration
KU Leuven


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2024.

LinkedIn
Bachelor's
Social Psychology
Sookmyung Women's University


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2024.
Bachelor's
Industrial & Information Design
Handong Global University


Master's
Design & Technology
Department of Design, Pusan National University - Feb. 2018


Ph.D's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2024
Thesis: Exploratory Analysis on Stylization Tendency of User-Generated Visual Arts in Online Platforms, 2010-2020.


Social Computing Lab, KAIST
Research Associate (Temp.)


Research Area
Data and Information Science (in the domain of Digital Humanities)
- Special Interest: Art, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Creativity, and Cultural Analytics
Bachelor's
Library and Information Science,
Data Science,
Sungkyunkwan University

Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2022.
Bachelor's
Political Science,
Statistics,
Kyungpook National University

Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2022.
Bachelor's
History
Hanyang University


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2013


Ph.D's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2020
Thesis: Stars inside have reached outside: The effects of electronic dance music DJs’ social standing and musical identity on track success


Neutune
Strategy & managing director


Research Area
Musical and social behavior
Social network analysis

Bachelor's
Computer Science,
KAIST


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2010


Ph.D's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2018
Thesis: A study on the influences of social functions on urban human mobility with scalable approaches.


Kakao Mobility
AIRnD Team Leader (Director)


Research Area
ML/Statistical Model Research and Serving
Demand Prediction/Dynamic Pricing/AI Matching

Bachelor's
Korean Language and Literature,
Sungkyunkwan University


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2017


Ph.D's
Data Science
Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University - Aug. 2022
Thesis: Mapping the knowledge structure of Korean humanities : Bibliographic data analysis of humanities journal articles in the Korea citation index, 2004~2019

KAIST
Center for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences
Research Assistant Professor, 2023~2024

The Academy of Korean Studies
Department of Cultural Informatics, Graduate School of Korean Studies
Assistant Professor, 2024~

Research Area
Digital Humanities
Computational Social Sciences
Bachelor's
Religion and Political Science
CUNY Hunter College - May. 2019


J.D.
Yale Law School - 2024


Yale Law School
Research Associate
(Henry Luce Foundation, Luce Scholar)


Research Area
Extremism, Privacy, Government response to extremism, Modern religion
(Work in progress: Studying the intersection between extremism and privacy)

After Yoon’s arrest, calls in South Korea for Kim Keon-hee to face charges intensify.

South China Morning Post, 2025. 1. 16.

Read More  

KAIST 반도체·화학·전산 '초세대 협업연구실' 추가 개소

연합뉴스, 2025. 1. 7.

Read More  

[지식뉴스] 머스크 "한국 인구, 3분의 2 사라질 것"...'인구붕괴 위기'로 대한민국에 닥칠 일 (ft.이원재 카이스트 문화기술대학원 교수) / 교양이를 부탁해 / 비디오머그

비디오머그, 교양이를 부탁해, 2024. 11. 30.

Read More  

김병준 동문, 한국학중앙연구원 한국학대학원 교수 임용, 2024. 9. 2.

Read More  

[책이벤트] 부모와 기성세대가 꼭 들어야 할 이야기 | 이원재 카이스트 문화기술대학원 교수 | #교육 #성장 #명언 | 세바시 1844회

세바시 강연, 2024. 6. 17.

Read More  

우리 학과 이원재 교수가 한겨레에 '이원재의 사실과 진실' 칼럼 연재를 시작했다. 칼럼은 4주 간격으로 게재된다.

한겨레, 2024. 6. 6.

Read More  

[시민300, 인구절벽을 막아라/LIVE] 사랑, 불임의 시대(1부)-2024년 4월 25일(목) 오전 10시 45분

MBC 뉴스, 2024. 4. 25.

Read More  

[지식뉴스] "커지는 부의 격차에 분노"...대한민국 서민의 삶이 늘 팍팍한 이유② (ft.이원재 카이스트 문화기술대학원 교수) / 교양이를 부탁해 / 비디오머그

비디오머그, 교양이를 부탁해, 2024. 4. 13.

Read More  

[지식뉴스] "중국은 한국 쫓아오지도 못해"... IMF보다 더 위험하다는 대한민국 '경제 위기'의 진실① (ft.이원재 카이스트 교수) / 교양이를 부탁해 / 비디오머그

비디오머그, 교양이를 부탁해, 2024. 4. 6.

Read More  

박성찬 학생, 인문사회융합과학대학 석박사모험연구사업 선정, 2024. 3. 25.

Read More  

김승환 동문, 한국복잡계학회 우수 논문상 수상, 2024. 3. 21.

Read More  

Luisa do Amaral 학생, Ars Electronica x IT:U 그룹전 Open House 참여, 2024. 2. 29.

Read More