Benjamin C. Lee

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
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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. Benjamin is particularly interested in analytics, statistical inference, and machine learning to enable qualitatively new studies in these areas. He is also interested in technology, economics, and policy for environmentally sustainable information technology infrastructure.

Benjamin Lee held an NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship at Stanford University (2009). He also held visiting research positions at Microsoft Research (2008), Intel Corporation (2007), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2006).

Ph.D., Harvard University (2008)
S.M., Harvard University (2006)
B.S., University of California, Berkeley (2004)

2011 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,
IEEE/ACM Int'l Symp. Microarchitecture (MICRO).
2008 Harvard University Nomination, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
2008 Invited Participant, 38th St. Gallen Symposium.
2007 Invited Participant, 37th St. Gallen Symposium.
2006 First Place, ACM Student Research Competition,
IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC).
2004 Engineering and Applied Sciences Fellowship, Harvard University.
2004 Best Paper, Int'l Conf. Parallel Processing (ICPP).
2002 Best Student Paper Finalist, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC).
2000 National Merit Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley.