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Sewook Wee is an R&D manager at Accenture Technology Labs.

His research has been grounded on distributed system with current emphasis on Big Data platform technologies. Recently, he led Hadoop deployment comparison study where he compared bare metal Hadoop cluster with Hadoop services (Amazon EMR) at the total cost of ownership level with three real world workloads. Previously, he has led various R&D projects including hybrid NoSQL approaches that layers graph data management capability on column-oriented datastores; MapReduce-based data transformation framework; next generation software architecture that maximizes the benefits of cloud; MonteCloudo, elastic Monte Carlo simulation architecture using cloud; and web server farm architecture on AWS EC2 environment.

Along with leading R&D projects, he publishes academic papers, business white papers, files patents, presents in both academic and industry conferences, builds relationships with business partners and clients.

He received MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University, and his alma mater is Seoul National University in South Korea.