Benjamin C. Lee

Nortel Networks Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Science

Biographical Sketch

Benjamin Lee is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. His research focuses on scalable technologies, power-efficient computer architectures, and high-performance applications. To enable qualitatively new studies in these areas, Benjamin is particularly interested in statistical inference and machine learning. He is also interested in technology, economics, and policy for environmentally sustainable computing.

He held an NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship at Stanford University (2009), working with Mark Horowitz. He has also held visiting research positions at Microsoft Research, Intel Corporation, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Benjamin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University (2008), working with David Brooks. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley (2004) where he worked with Katherine Yelick and James Demmel.

2012 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation.
2011 Google Faculty Research Award.
2011 Research Highlight, Communications of the ACM.
2010 Research Highlight, Communications of the ACM.
2010 Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, IEEE Micro.
2009 Computing Innovation Fellowship, National Science Foundation.
2008 Best Paper Nomination, Int'l Symp. Microarchitecture (MICRO).
2008 Harvard Nominee, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
2008 Invited Participant, 38th St. Gallen Symposium.
2007 Invited Participant, 37th St. Gallen Symposium.
2006 First Place, Student Research Competition, Supercomputing (SC).
2004 Engineering and Applied Sciences Fellowship, Harvard University.
2004 Best Paper, Int'l Conf. Parallel Processing (ICPP).
2002 Best Student Paper Finalist, Supercomputing (SC).
2000 National Merit Scholarship.