de Fremery, Wayne, PhD

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).

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