Byeong Gi Lee | |
Birth Place: | Korea |
Nationality: | Korean |
Field: | Electrical Engineering Telecommunications |
Work Institutions: | Seoul National University |
Alma Mater: | Wireless communications |
Prizes: | IEEE Fellow Member of Korean Academy of Engineering |
Byeong Gi Lee is an emeritus professor at Seoul National University, Korea.[1]
Born in Korea, Lee studied his undergraduate degree at Seoul National University, Korea. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from UCLA, USA.[2]
Lee worked at Granger Associates and AT&T Bell Labs before joining SNU, Korea as a faculty member.He became a professor of electrical engineering and subsequently Vice Chancellor of Research. Later, hebecame a Commissioner of the Korean Communications Commission.[3] He was active in IEEE Communications Society and had served as the society President. He was also the 23rd President of KICS - Korean Informationand Communications Society.[4] Lee later retired in 2016 as an emeritus professor of SNU.[5]
Lee was elected to Fellow of the IEEE in the year 1997 for contributions to digital transform and filtering, to broadband telecommunications, and to digital scrambling[6] and member of Korean National Academy of Engineering.[7]