XRI Bd Members

Board Members

Young-Sung Lee, M.D., Ph.D. - Chairman

Young Sung Lee has been leading MedRic (Medical Research Information Center), a Ministry of Science and Technology funded organization in S. Korea, focusing on research and development in medical informatics, medical data visualization, telematics, Virtual Reality-based medical training, and health communication and promotion policies and programs. Dr. Lee is Professor of College of Medicine at Chungbuk National University and a visiting scholar at Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technology. He has lead many global health literacy initiatives.

Paul Kim, Ph.D - President

Paul Kim is Chief Technology Officer for the Stanford University School of Education, responsible for providing leadership in all academic and innovative technology. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Technology from University of Southern California and has been collaborating with educational research and development institutes such as U.S. Satellite Laboratories, Medical Research & Information Center, and Korea Educational Research and Information Service. Kim served as Vice President for Vatterott College, MO and Chairman of the Board for Intercultural Institute of California. At Stanford, he teaches Enterprising Higher Education in the Digital Age, Web-Based Technologies for Learning, and Directed Studies.

Kenneth Lee, Esq. - General Counsel & Secretary

Kenneth Lee is a founding partner of the Law Offices of Lee & Kim and has over 20 years of experience representing foreign companies conducting business in the United States. He also represents many high-tech start-ups. Lee has taken an active leadership role in many non-profit organizations including the Korea IT Network (founder, director and president); Korean Americans for Political Empowerment (founder and president); Korean American Professional Society (founding director); United Way, Community Initiatives Committee; among many others. He received his B.A. from Columbia University and his JD from New York University School of Law.

Tina Hong - Chief Financial Officer

Tina Hong is a CPA in private practice in Silicon Valley. She provides her clients with year-round accounting, tax and financial services, and she provides consulting services to many start-up businesses. She has over 6 years of accounting and audit experience with high-tech companies. Most of her clients are individuals, partnerships, or corporations. Hong received her B.S. in Accounting from San Jose State University and a B.A. in History from Busan National University in Korea. She is fluent in English and Korean.

Deborah Todd - Board Member

Deborah Todd is an award-winning game designer, writer, producer, and director in the interactive arena, and has worked with some of the industry’s top publishers and Hollywood studios, including Disney Interactive, Disneyland, Fox, DreamWorks, MGM/UA, Columbia, Warner Bros., Nickelodeon, Humongous Entertainment, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Company, Mindscape, Broderbund, Houghton Mifflin Interactive, McGraw-Hill, Thomson Higher Education, Cengage Learning, Random House, and Stephen Spielberg's Starbright Foundation. She has designed games on subjects ranging from early-learning reading and math, to algebra, astronomy, and CAD engineering, and has worked with such major marquee properties as Curious George, Blue’s Clues, The Pink Panther, and 101 Dalmatians. Her work has garnered the ABA Book Sellers Choice New Media Award, the ComputEd Best Interactive Story Award, Parenting Magazine’s Software Magic Award, and U.S. News and World Report’s Top 12 Titles of the Year.

Gordon Freedman - Board Member

Gordon Freedman has a thorough practice, academic and policy knowledge of K12, higher education, government agencies, textbook publishing and education technology vendors in the U.S. as well as in many other countries globally. Freedman has held numerous executive positions that, along with his extensive consulting with for-profits, non-profits, and institutions, have influenced both the development of education technologies and education policy and practice. Through his research, writing, and participation in various settings, Freedman firmly believes that major education transformations are underway in each of the segments, and between segments, and that these are largely occurring without adequate planning, guidance, measurement, public and expert comment, or social/technical architecture and integration.

Mark Schlager, PhD. - Board Member

Mark Schlager’s research focuses in the application of cognitive and social learning theories to the development of online strategies and technologies for teacher education and professional development. As Director of the internationally recognized Tapped In® online teacher community program (http://www.tappedin.org) and the NSF Centers for Learning and Teaching Network (http://www.cltnet.org), he has developed and researched effective online strategies, services, and technologies that enable education professionals to engage in a wide range formal and informal collaborative learning activities. Tapped In has been cited in the National Research Council book, How People Learn (2000), the Web-Based Education Commission (2000) report, The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice, theOpen University Press Professional Learning Series book, Teacher Learning for Educational Change (2002), and several text books teacher education and professional development text books. Dr. Schlager recently led the development of the School 2.0 eToolkit site (etoolkit.org) for the U.S. Department of Education.

Susan Maunders - Board Member

Susan Maunders is a developer of award-winning educational media with a long-standing reputation for creating designs that use media in educationally innovative ways. She has written or produced over 200 multimedia titles and is President of Interactive Masters, a consulting firm focusing on strategic planning and production of educational media for adult and adolescent learners. She has judged many media design competitions as an established expert in educational media. She is also currently a Doctoral Candidate in Educational and Psychological Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is an active researcher in the Learning Sciences, specializing in the design of virtual learning environments for adolescents.

Francisco Kim, L.Ac., M.S. - Board Member

Francisco Kim is CEO of OneStop Medical Group in San Jose, California. OneStop is operated by a group of American board certified medical doctors and healthcare practitioners who combine the best practices of Eastern and Western medical treatments to provide patients with the overall wellness care services. Dr. Kim has been practicing acupuncture and herbal medicine with western medical doctors since 1994.
Dr. Kim also served on the Board of Directors of "Clinica Para Las Americas," a community health foundation based in Los Angeles. As a board member, Dr. Kim played a major role in making decisions related to clinic administration, and he worked extensively to formulate public health policy and to broaden the availability and quality of public health in L.A. County.

Okwha Lee, Ph.D. - Board Member

Okhwa Lee is a professor of Computer Education at Chungbuk National University in Korea, with the work experience at the Korea Educational Development Institute and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology where she participated in the national educational policy making for the use of digital technology in education. Her research interests include digital culture, pedagogy of e-learning, and future studies. Lee is a member of two Presidential Commissions : special committee for the e-Government and tast force team for Korea Education 2030. She has been a various committee member for the Office of Prime Minister, Ministry of Government and Home Affairs; Ministry of Information and Communications, Ministry of Commerce, Industy and Energy; and Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development; Ministry of Environment; and Ministry of Health and Welfare. She has been also active with international organizations and NGOs such as UN, Asia Society and Asia Education Foundation.

Byeong Gook Lee, M.D., Ph.D. - Board Member

Byeong Lee serves as the Chairman for the Department of Medical Education at Chungnam National University, College of Medicine, Korea. He has been involved in developing and implementing PBL integrated medical education programs at multiple universities and conducting research studies in AIDS education curriculum with SP program. He has presented at conferences such as AMIA, AAMC, and AERA in recent years. In addition, he is also the director of National Consortium for Educational Simulations in Korea and a member of Medical Education Committee of Korea Medical Association.

Piya Sorcar, M.A., - Board Member

Piya Sorcar is the author and executive director of Interactive Teaching AIDS, an animation-based curriculum developed to teach HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention strategies via ICTs. Sorcar is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Stanford University in Learning Sciences and Technology Design / International Comparative Education and is a Program Advisor for Stanford's Learning, Design & Technology master's program. Sorcar has been a storyboard/screenplay consultant for many international award-winning children's educational programs and was nominated for a Regional Emmy Award as a lead actress.

Vridhi Tuli, B.A., - Board Member

Vridhi Tuli is currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology with a minor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford Univeristy. Her research interests lie in promoting mobile education to rural and middle-class segments in India, and other emerging economies. Vridhi is part of various student groups on campus, serving as a coordinating officer for BASES, Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students, and as the past Programming Director of the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Association.