Chan Lee: Scientist. Planner. Builder.
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Scientist.
- M.S. thesis on AI food-safety signals
- EMNLP 2025 paper, with KAIST AI
- Awarded posters at two conferences
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Planner.
- Proposals that won national R&D projects
- Screen specifications for public systems
- Education programs for a district office
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Builder.
- Public systems designed and now running
- Dashboards, films, manuals, decks
- AI-assisted tools and this site
Food scientist with a master’s in food safety and regulatory science from Chung-Ang University. I take national food-safety projects for the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety from proposal to operating system, design the screens, write the reports, and build the AI-assisted tools my work runs on.
- Degree
- M.S., Food Safety and Regulatory Science, Chung-Ang University
- Based in
- Seoul, Korea
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Contact
- leechan829@naver.com
Projects
Selected projects
National R&D projects and public systems, 2023 to present
MFDS · National R&D · 2025 to 202601
KACE: AI nutrient estimation, a selected national R&D project
Proposal, evaluation deck and four-year roadmap for estimating the nutrients of processed foods with AI, and the first year’s research.
Open
NIFDS · National platform · 2024 to 202602
K-HBM: from survey screens to a live platform
Designed the survey tool now used in three government research projects, led acceptance testing and specified the administrator screens of a national platform in operation. Two conference posters, both awarded.
Open
National environmental-health R&D · 2025 to 202603
DEFs: a digital survey system for exposure factors
Proposal and evaluation deck, system diagrams, example screens, the participant app design and training data for AI recognition. Selected; under way since April 2026.
Open
MFDS · Public system · 2024 to 202604
Toxinfo: running a public toxicity information system
A three-year operations contract (2024 to 2026) for the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s toxicity information system: releases, screens, security checks, reports, and a chatbot pilot with KAIST that became an EMNLP 2025 paper.
Open
MFDS · Public system · 2024 to 202605
Laboratory Animal Resource Bank: specification and redesign
Specified the 2024 upgrade and planned the 2025 redesign: 38 menus to 20, 200 tables to 85, every planned item delivered.
OpenThesis, education programs, culinary research
Chung-Ang University · M.S. thesis · 202606
Master’s thesis: AI detection of food-safety signals in online text
A fine-tuned model extracts signals more accurately than a large language model at a fraction of the compute, and scores them in line with ratings from five experts.
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Incheon Seo-gu Office · 2022 to 202307
Education programs, planned and run
Planned and ran sixteen resident courses over seventeen months at an urban regeneration center; decks built for the residents’ cooperative won a grand prize and a national excellence award.
Open
Sempio Foods · Culinary research · 201808
Culinary research at Sempio
Ingredient research for the cooking science team, and a Sebasi talk on cooking science planned and scripted end to end, published on YouTube.
OpenProduction and AI
Production · 2017 to 202609
Design, film and photography
A demonstration film for the K-HBM platform, two documentaries, print and photography: production handled in-house, from planning to final cut.
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AI-assisted workflow · 202610
Working with AI
Standing rules, a persistent memory and script-based builders keep AI output checkable in daily work; the dashboards, screen designs and apps on this site were built that way.
OpenDocuments
Documents and screens
Two conference posters, 2025
EMNLP 2025 Industry Track paper with KAIST AI: Tox-chat, a Korean toxicity-information language agent
KACE proposal presentation
FFQ survey tool project, selection presentation
VeST and FFQ screen designs
K-HBM third-year progress report
K-HBM final evaluation deck, my section
K-HBM DX Insight Center, administrator screen specification
Toxinfo 2024 maintenance proposal, my chapters
Toxinfo screen designs: search-result download, initial-consonant search, source database, toxicity table
Tox chatbot technical description
Toxinfo 2024 progress reportJourney
Experience and education
I plan and run national R&D projects and public information systems, many of them for the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. Before that I ran education and communications at an urban regeneration center in Incheon, and researched Korean cooking at Sempio, where I also wrote a Sebasi talk and produced decks, films and photographs.
My first journal paper came out in 2013, while I was still in high school. In 2026 I completed a master’s degree in food safety with a thesis on AI.
Roles I can take on
- Service planning for information systems
- R&D planning and project management
- Education planning and operations
- Content, communications and design
- AI adoption in everyday work (AX)
Experience
- Jul 2023 to presentCheminet · Senior Researcher
- Researcher on national R&D projects, from proposal and selection to execution and final reporting
- Operations of public information systems for the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
- Proposals and decks that won projects; execution plans and reports
- Planning of web and mobile survey systems: screen specifications, definitions, development review
- Day-to-day contact for clients and partner institutions, including universities and KAIST
- Mar 2022 to Jul 2023Incheon Seo-gu Office · Urban Regeneration Division · Field coordinator (contract, extended)
- Planned and ran resident education programs
- Newsletter editing and design; posters, banners and decks
- Resident grant program: document review and budget processing; community festival support
- Feb 2018 to Aug 2018Sempio Foods · Culinary research mentee program · Researcher (contract)
- Research on Korean food culture; ingredient studies and product review for the cooking science team
- Planning, script and slides for a Sebasi talk
- Research booklet, event films and posters, menu and advertising photographs
Government R&D projects
- 2024 to 2026Toxinfo, MFDS toxicity information system: maintenance and operationsOperations for the three-year contract; Tox chatbot pilot with KAIST (2024), later an EMNLP 2025 paper
- 2024 to 2026Laboratory Animal Resource Bank: upgrade, improvement, operationsScreen specification (2024), execution plan and menu redesign (2025), operations
- 2024 to 2026K-HBM: integrated management model for human biomonitoring data (NIFDS)VeST survey tool build and operations, testing, administrator screens, demo film, report sections
- 2025 to 2029Precision nutrition program for vulnerable groups (MFDS): dietary survey platformSurvey tool operations, screen design, administrator pages
- 2025Food frequency survey method and web survey tool (NIFDS, with Sahmyook University)Web and mobile survey tool: screens, testing, operations; two conference posters
- 2026 to 2029KACE: AI-driven nutrient estimation for processed foodsProposal, roadmap, kickoff deck; year-one research tasks
- 2026 to 2028DEFs: digital exposure-factor method and survey systemProposal; diagrams and example screens; participant app design; training data
- 2023 to 2024LIMS test and inspection data studyParticipating researcher
- 2024Rural Development Administration food data; food nutrient information database; CASA air-quality systemData mapping, operations, screen design
- 2024 to 2026Films for seven public information systemsPlanning, capture, editing
Education
- Sep 2024 to Aug 2026M.S., Food Safety and Regulatory Science, Chung-Ang University Graduate SchoolGPA 4.28 / 4.5
- Mar 2014 to Feb 2022B.S., Bio-convergence Engineering, Sejong University
- 2014Incheon Sangok High School, science track
Thesis, paper and conference presentations
- 2026AI-assisted Detection and Prioritization of Emerging Food Safety Signals from Korean Online Text DataMaster’s thesis, Chung-Ang University
- 2025Building Resource-Constrained Language Agents: A Korean Case Study on Chemical Toxicity InformationEMNLP 2025 Industry Track, Suzhou, with KAIST AI. Co-author. Tox-chat, a Korean toxicity-information language agent
- Nov 2025Development of a digital survey tool for identifying exposure and health effects in human biomonitoringKorean Society of Environmental Health, poster, first author. Poster Presentation Award
- Oct 2025Development of a web and mobile tool for surveying food intakeEast Asian Society of Dietary Life, poster, first author. Poster Encouragement Award
- 2013Antioxidant and skin whitening effects of Inonotus obliquus methanol extractJournal of Mushroom Science and Production 11(2), with Incheon National University. Written as a student at Incheon Sangok High School, third author
Awards
- 2025Poster Presentation Award, autumn conferenceKorean Society of Environmental Health
- 2025Poster Encouragement Award, autumn conferenceEast Asian Society of Dietary Life
- 2018Top prize, video category, World Friends Korea youth volunteer contestKorea University Council for Social Service
- 2017Sejong volunteer award; Sejong KB creative volunteer corps encouragement awardSejong University
- 2016Top prize, signature product proposal contest (Sejong Box: planning and making)Sejong University
- 2016Best program award, UnivExpo SeoulUnivExpo Seoul organizing committee
Certificates and training
- Oct 2021Barista Level 2Korea Coffee Association
- Jul to Aug 2021NCS courses: design draft development, visual ideationGreen Computer Art Academy
- May 2016HACCP team leader courseKorea Food Information Institute
Activities
- Aug 2017 to Jan 2018World Friends Korea youth volunteers, KyrgyzstanClasses in my field; publicity film and card news
- Sep 2016 to Feb 2017Sejong KB creative volunteer corpsCampus environment and study motivation projects
- Mar 2016 to Dec 2016Green Consumers Network, Greenit (5th class)Campaigns for green and safe consumption; UnivExpo