Ph.D., Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, USA, 2005.03 M.S., Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, USA, 2001.04 B.S, Seoul National University, Department of Mechanical Design and Production Engineering, Korea, 1999.02

 Associate Editor, Transactions of Korean Society of Mechanical Engineering, 2014 - present  Associate Professor, Kyung Hee University, Korea, 2014 – present  Assistant Professor, Kyung Hee University, Korea, 2008 - 2014  Postdoctoral Research Staff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, 2005 – 2008

 G. W. Lee, Y. C. Cho, B. Lee, and K. F. Kelton, 2017, "Interfacial free energy and medium range order: Proof of an inverse of Frank’s hypothesis," Physical Review B, 95: 054202.  B. Lee and G. W. Lee, 2016, " A liquid-liquid transition can exist in monatomic transition metals with a positive melting slope," Scientific Reports, 6: 35564.

 Best Teaching Award in School of Engineering, Kyung Hee University, 2011  Best Paper Awards, Korean Society of Mechanical Engineering, 2009  A first-principles study of local structures and phase transitions in liquid metals, KRISS, 2017.02-2020.12  Atomic scale simulation of neutron irradiation damages in plasma facing materials of fusion reactor divertor, National Research Foundation of Korea, 2014.06-2017.05

The primary focus of my research is on microstructure-property relationship. Material properties are predominantly determined by their microstructures, and hence, understanding the formation of microstructures is critical in modern materials modeling and design, especially under extreme condition