Wayne de Fremery

Wayne de Fremery serves as Professor of Information Science and Entrepreneurship and Director of the Francoise O. Lepage Center of Global Innovation at Dominican University of California's Barowsky School of Business. He concurrently directs the Korea Text Initiative at the Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea and owns Tamal Vista Insights LLC, an AI accessibility software firm. Previously, he spent twenty years as Associate Professor of Korean Studies at South Korea's Sogang University and represents Korea at ISO as Convener of WG 9 on document semantics.

His Harvard PhD, Seoul National University MA, and Whitman College BA underpin interdisciplinary research bridging literary studies, bibliography, design, information science, and artificial intelligence. Current work focuses on cultural continuity, sustainability, and innovation's role in preserving heritage, exemplified by his MIT Press-contracted book Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants: Bibliographical Foundations of Information Science.

Award highlights include dual National Library of Korea grants for AI-driven Korean text processing (2020-2021), South Korea's Ministry of Culture Citation (2020), Seagate's Data for Good Award (2019), and literary honors including the Benjamin Franklin Award (2005).

• National Library of Korea Research Grant (2021) for historical Korean OCR
• South Korean Ministry Citation (2020) for National Library contributions
• Seagate Data for Good Award (2019) for 'Sijo Reborn as Data'
• Microsoft Cloud for Good Grant (2016-2019) for Project Mo문oN
• Benjamin Franklin Award (2005) for literary criticism

He leads the Korea Text Initiative and Project Mo문oN with funding from National Library of Korea, Microsoft, and Seagate, advising students in information science entrepreneurship while advancing ISO standards for semantic metadata.