Fred C. LEE

Biography:

Fred C. Lee  received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1968, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, in 1972 and 1974, respectively.,He is currently a University Distinguished Professor with Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, where he is also the Director of the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (NSF ERC) established in 1998, with four university partners—University of Wisconsin–Madison, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, North Carolina A&T State University, and University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez—and more than 80 industry members. The Center’s vision is “to provide leadership through global collaboration to create electric power processing systems of the highest value to society.” Over the ten-year NSF ERC Program, CPES has been cited as a model ERC for its industrial collaboration and technology transfer, as well as education and outreach programs. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, he has supervised to completion of 84 Ph.D. and 93 Master’s students. He has authored or co-authored 296 journal articles and more than 722 refereed technical papers. He holds 82 U.S. patents. His current research interests include high-frequency power conversion, distributed power systems, renewable energy, power quality, high-density electronics packaging and integration, and modeling and control.,Dr. Lee was a recipient of the William E. Newell Power Electronics Award in 1989, the Arthur E. Fury Award for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Power Electronic Systems Technology in 1998, and the Ernst-Blickle Award for achievement in the field of power electronics in 2005. He has served as the President for the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 1993 to 1994. He was named to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2011, the Academia Sinica of Taiwan in 2012, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2013.