C. C. Lee received his BSEE from National Taiwan
University in 1976, his MSE, MA, and PhD degrees in EE from Princeton
University in 1979, 1979, and 1980, respectively. In 1980, he joined
the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Northwestern University where he is currently professor of electrical
engineering. Dr. Lee's research experiences cover many subjects
in communications systems, networking, and computer science. He
has published more than one hundred technical articles in these
fields and his research programs have been sponsored by National
Science Foundation, Army Research Office, Recon Optical, Ameritech,
Motorola, AT&T, Bellcore, Bell Northern Research, Bell and Howell,
Chrysler, American Iron and Steel Institute, ARDIS, and US Robotics.
Additionally, he has been a consultant to major information and
telecommunication industries including AT&T Bell Labs, Reuters Information
Technologies, Zenith, Bank One, GE Medical, Pacific Broadband communications,
Raytheon, 3COM, Illinois Superconductor, Abbott Labs, MBSI, Juniper
Networks, among others. His research contributions have covered
the areas of statistical signal processing, wireless data network
protocol design, network modeling and performance evaluation, packet
scheduling and QoS control, process scheduling, computer algorithm
design and complexity analysis, automated document recognition,
and robust speaker verification. He was co-director of Center for
Information and Technology from 1988 to 1997 and the founder of
the Master of Information Technology Program at Northwestern.
Research Interests
Digital communications, communication network performance modeling
and analysis, distributed multisensor detection and estimation.