Personal profile

About

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).

Contact Information

Dominican University of California
50 Acacia Ave.
San Rafael, CA 94901

Related documents

Education/Academic qualification

East Asian Languages and Civilizations, PhD, Harvard University

2011

Korean Studies; Korean Literature, MA, Seoul National University

2002

Economics, BA, Whitman College

1995

External positions

Adjunct Lecturer, Bowdoin College

Teaching Fellow, Harvard Summer School & Ewha University, Seoul

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

Adjunct Lecturer, Korea University, Seoul

Adjunct Lecturer, Yonsei University, Seoul

Research Interests

  • Information Science
  • Bibliography
  • Information Theory
  • Data Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software Studies
  • Document Studies
  • New Media
  • Digital Humanities
  • Comparitive Textural Media
  • Book History
  • Korean Publishing History
  • Korean Studies
  • Korean Literature
  • Korean Poetry
  • World Literature
  • Literary Theory
  • Entrepreneurship

Disciplines

  • Digital Humanities
  • East Asian Languages and Societies
  • Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
  • Data Science