Professional Experience:

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Cullen Trust For Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering The University of Texas at Austin, September 1996 - present

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Texas at Austin, September 1992 - August 1996

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Texas at Austin, September 1988 - August 1992

Lecturer, EECS Department University of California at Berkeley, Spring Semester 1988

Member of Technical Staff, Microelectronics Center TRW, Redondo Beach, CA, June 1979 - August 1984

Research Interests:

His current research interests include thin dielectric breakdown and reliability, high-K gate dielectrics and gate electrode, high-K thin films for semiconductor memory applications, electronic materials, and semiconductor device fabrication processes, characterization and modeling.

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, December 1981.

B.S. in Electrical Engineering (with highest honors) UCLA, June 1980.

• Fellow, The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2002 - “For contributions to the understanding and development of ultra-thin dielectrics and their application to silicon devices.”
• Cullen Trust For Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering, 2000-.
• Dean’s Fellow, College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999.
• Lockheed Fort-Worth Division Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996.
• Award of Excellence, Halliburton Foundation, 1993.
• Departmental Teaching Award, College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993.
• SRC Inventor Recognition Award, Semiconductor Research Corporation, 1991.
• Hughes Aircraft Company Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991- 2000.
• Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991.
• Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1990.
• Engineering Research Initiation Award, Engineering Foundation of the United Engineering Trustees, 1989.
• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium, 1988.

Dr. Lee's current research funding comes from Intel Corporation, Texas Advanced Research Program, SEMATECH, Micron Foundation, Texas Emerging Technology Funds and NSF IGERT program.

A complete listing of all publications can be found in this PDF