Dr. Lee received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from
the National Taiwan University in 1971, and the M.S. and  Ph. D. 
degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1978 respectively.


Dr. Lee has been with the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, 
Taiwan, where he is Director and a Distinguished Research Fellow since 
July 1, 1998. Prior to joining the Institute, he was a Professor of the 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, 
where he has worked since 1978.


He spent one year (August 1989 - August 1990) working as Program 
Director for Computer & Computation Theory Program, Division of 
Computer & Computation Research of the National Science Foundation.  

He was a Distinguished Visiting Researcher, Ministry of Education, 
Culture and Sciences of Japan, in July 1991.


His research interests include design and analysis of algorithms, 
computational geometry, VLSI layout, parallel and distributed 
computing, web-based computing, algorithm visualization, software 
tools development, compliant controller for active suspension
and vibration control, digital libraries and
advanced IT for intelligent transportation systems.

Professional Activities

He has published over 120 technical articles in scientific journals
and conference proceedings, and 
he also holds three U.S. patents, and one R.O.C patent.

He is Editor of  Algorithmica, Computational Geometry:
Theory & Applicatoins, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics

Chief Editor of Int'l Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications,
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Series Editor of Lecture Notes Series on Computing for World Scientific 
Publishing Co., Singapore.

He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACM and President of IICM .

He is Recipient of 2001 Outstanding Research Award from 
    Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation for contributions to computational geometry 
    and its applications to VLSI ciruit layout, routing, and manufacturing 
    and Recipient of 2001 Information Science Honorary Medal from
    the Institute of Information and Computing Machinery, Taiwan.


Patents and Copyright

Copyright:  GeoSheet: A Distributed Visualization Tool for Geometric Algorithms,
Registration number: TXu 695-628, U. S. Copyright Office, July 24, 1995. 

Patent: Method and System for Determining Critical Area for Circuit
Layouts Using Voronoi Diagrams (with E. Papadopoulou),
U.S. Patent No. 6178539, January 2001.

Patent: Nonlinear Muscle-Like Controller (with Chi-haur Wu), 
U.S. Patent No. 6,243,624 B1, June 2001.

Patent: An Intelligent System for Regulating the Speed of an 
Electrical Motorcycle (with Chi-haur Wu),  
U.S. Patent No. 6,324,464 B1, Nov. 2001.

Patent: An Intelligent System for Regulating the Speed of an Electric
Vehicle, (with C. H. Wu)
R.O.C Patent No. 089105820, June 2002

Patent Pending:  Polymer Sequence Representation,
(with Chwen-Jye Sze, and Hong-Yuan Mark Liao).