Tony T. Lee is a professor of information engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an adjunct professor at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He took a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1971, a master's degree at Cleveland State University, and master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering at Polytechnic University in New York in 1976 and 1977. From 1977 to 1983 he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, and from 1983 to 1993 at Bellcore, later Telcordia Technologies. He was a professor of electrical engineering at Polytechnic University from 1991 to 1993 before joining CUHK. He now serves as an editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications and an area editor of the Journal of Communication Networks.
Lee's industrial research spans two American centres of communications research — Bell Laboratories and Bellcore — before he moved to teaching in Hong Kong, where he also takes part in the international communications engineering community as a journal editor.
Achievements
- 1977 · Completed a PhD in electrical engineering at Polytechnic University and joined AT&T Bell Laboratories.
- 1991 · Served as professor of electrical engineering at Polytechnic University until 1993.
- 1993 · Joined the Department of Information Engineering at CUHK.