Distinguished Research Fellow  |  Lee, Der- Tsai       Honors & Awards   Member - Engineering Sciences, The Academy of Sciences for the Devleoping World (TWAS), Mexico City, Mexico (2008–present) Bronze Science Medal, National Science Council, Taiwan (2008–present) Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2007–present) Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2004–present) Outstanding Information Science Specialist Award IT Month, Taiwan (2002–present) Information Science Honorary Medal, Institute of Information and Computing Machinery, Taiwan (2002–present) Outstanding Research Award for contributions to computational geometry and its applications to VLSI circuit layout, routing, and manufacturing, Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation, Taiwan (2001–present) Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, USA (1997–present) Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, USA (1992–present)