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 a Distinguished Research Fellow since July 1, 1998, and Director until September 15, 2008. 
Prior to joining the Institute, he was a Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 
Northwestern University, where he has worked since 1978.  He is also a Distinguished Research Chair Professor of 
Computer Science in the Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, 
and the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University,
Honorary Chair Professor of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 
Computer Science Chair Professor of National Chung Hsing University, and of National Chiao-Tung University. 
He has a joint appointment with the Genomics Research Center 
and the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica. 
He is currently the Executive Director of the  Taiwan Information Security Center (TWISC), 
Research Center for Information Technology Innovation,
Academia Sinica, and also the Deputy Program Director of the  Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program, 
sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan.

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, web-based computing, 
algorithm visualization, software security, 
bio-informatics, and digital libraries.

Professional Activities

He has published over 150 technical articles in scientific journals
and conference proceedings, and he also holds three U.S. patents, and one Taiwan patent.

He is Editor of Algorithmica, 

ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 

International J. of Information and Computer Security 

LNCS Transactions on Computational Science, 

Chief Editor of Int'l Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications

Series Editor of Lecture Notes Series on Computing for World Scientific 
Publishing Co., Singapore.
In Taiwan, he has been involved with several key projects, 
including open source software policy, Computer Science curriculum development for high schools, information security, 
Taiwan cultural portal project in collaboration with the culture.mondo project (of Canada et al.), 
and the international collaboration project for advancing security technology (iCAST) 
with UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University.

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

He is Recipient of 2001 Outstanding Research Award from 
      the Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation for contributions to computational geometry and its applications to VLSI ciruit layout, routing, and manufacturing. 

Recipient of 2001 Information Science Honorary Medal from
      the Institute of Information and Computing Machinery, Taiwan, for his life-time contribution to information science and 

Recipient of 2007 Humboldt Research Award from 
      the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation, Germany, for his lifetime academic achievements.

He is elected Member of Academia Sinica, 2004(English, Chinese), and 
              Member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), 2008. 



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