Edward A. Lee

Professor
University of California at Berkeley
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
518 Cory Hall #1770
Berkeley CA 94720-1770

(510) 642-0455 (office)
(510) 642-2739 (FAX)

eal@eecs.berkeley.edu

Edward A. Lee was one of the founders of the Ptolemy project, which currently serves as the focal point for all of his research. He is currently a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at U. C. Berkeley. His research activities include real-time software, visual programming, parallel computation, architecture and software techniques for signal processing, and design methodology for heterogeneous systems. He previously directed the Gabriel project, the predecessor to Ptolemy.

Prof. Lee's bachelors degree (B.S.) is from Yale University (1979), his masters (S.M.) is from MIT (1981), and his Ph.D. is from the University of California at Berkeley (1986). From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, in the Advanced Data Communications Laboratory.

Prof. Lee is co-author of Digital Communication, with D. G. Messerschmitt, Kluwer Academic Press, 1988 (first edition) and 1994 (second edition), and Digital Signal Processing Experiments with Alan Kamas, Prentice-Hall, 1989, as well as numerous technical papers. He is a founder of Berkeley Design Technology, Inc, and has consulted for a number of other companies.

Prof. Lee is a fellow of the IEEE, and was a recipient of a 1987 NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, an IBM faculty development award, the 1986 Sakrison prize at U.C. Berkeley, and a paper award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Prof. Lee's dogs, Grendel and Sato.