Dr. Der-Tsai Lee received his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1978 respectively.
Dr. Lee is President of National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan as of Aug. 1, 2011. He has been with the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he is also a Distinguished Research Fellow since July 1, 1998 and was the Director from July 1, 1998 to September 15, 2008. Prior to joining IIS, he was Professor of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, where he has worked since 1978. He is also a Distinguished Research Chair Professor of Computer Science, National Taiwan University, Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, National Chung Hsing University and Honorary Chair Professor of National Taiwan Tech. He is Chair of CODATA-Taipei, International Council for Science (ICSU).
He is Editor of Algorithmica, ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, International J. of Information and Computer Security, LNCS Transactions on Computational Science, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Int'l Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications, and Series Editor of Lecture Notes Series on Computing for World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore.
He is Fellow of IEEE (1992), Fellow of ACM (1997), Academician of Academia Sinica (2004), Humboldt Research Awardee (2007), Science Profession Medal, National Science Council (2008), Member of TWAS (2008) and a Humboldt Ambassador Scientist in Taiwan (2010).