Der-Tsai Lee

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1949 –

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Who is Der-Tsai Lee?

Der-Tsai Lee is a computer scientist, known for his work in computational geometry. For many years he was a professor at Northwestern University. He has been a distinguished research fellow of the Institute for Information Science at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan since 1998. From 1998 to 2008, he was director of this institute. He is the 14th President of National Chung Hsing University from August 1, 2011.

Lee received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1971, an M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976, and a Ph.D. from UIUC under the supervision of Franco Preparata in 1978. After holding a faculty position at Northwestern University for 20 years, he moved to the Academia Sinica in 1998. He also holds faculty positions at National Taiwan University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and National Chiao Tung University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. He was elected as the Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan in 2004. He also won the Humboldt Research Award in 2007 and elected as the member of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World in 2008.

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Born
Apr 5, 1949
Taiwan
Nationality
  • Taiwan
Education
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lived in
  • Taiwan
  • Taiwan

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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