Der-Tsai Lee 李德財 Election Year 2004 Institute of Information Sciences, Academia Sinica
128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd., Taipei 11529, Taiwan Tel: (02) 2788-3799#2109 / Fax: (02) 2652-2226
Current Positions
Distinguished Visiting Chair, Institute of Information Science, and Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
Council Member, Academia Sinica
President, Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT)
Education
B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (1971)
M.S.(1976), Ph.D.(1978), Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, United States (1978-1981,1981-1986,1986-1998)
Program Director, Division of Computer and Computation Research, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA (1989-1990)
Distinguished Research Fellow & Director, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (1998-2008)
Executive Director, Taiwan Information Security Center (TWISC), Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2007-2011)
President, National Chung Hsing University (2011-2015)
Series Editor, Lecture Notes Series on Computing, World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc. (1990-present)
Chief Editor, Int'l Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications (1991-present)
Professor (Joint Appointment), Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2000-2007), Distinguished Research Chair Professor (2008-present)
Humboldt Ambassador Scientist, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2010-16)
Senior Advisor, National Security Council, Taiwan (2016-2020)
Specialties
Computer and Information Sciences
Awards and Honors
Fellow & Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) (1992 & 2015)
Fellow Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (1997)
Outstanding Research Award, Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation (2001)
Information Science Honorary Medal, Institute of Information and Computing Machinery, Taiwan (2002)
Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2004)
Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2007)
Science Profession Medal, National Science Council, Taiwan (2008)
Elected Member, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)(2008)