Prior to joining academia, he was a senior processor architect at Intel Corporation from 1995 to 2001, and later became the architecture manager of the StarCore DSP Technology Center, an Agere-Motorola joint center. Dr. Lee's Ph.D. dissertation was awarded the Horace H. Rackham School Distinguished Dissertation Award at the University of Michigan. He has authored 3 papers that won Best Paper Awards at MICRO-33, and CASES-2004, and IBM PAC2. He was the recipient of 2005 DoE Early CAREER PI Award, 2006 ECE outstanding Jr. faculty member award from Georgia Tech, and 2007 NSF CAREER Award.
Dr. Lee holds 4 US patents and is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the ACM and the IEEE.