Chien-Ping Lee

Chien-Ping Lee (M'80–SM'94–F'00) received the B.S. degree in physics from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1971, and the Ph.D. degree in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1978. He was with Bell Laboratories and later with Rockwell International until 1987. While at Rockwell International, he was a Department Manager, where he was responsible for the development of high-speed semiconductor devices. In 1987, he became a Professor with the National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. He was also appointed Director of the Semiconductor Research Center and, later, the first Director of the National Nano Device Laboratory. He is currently the Director of the Nano Science and Technology Center, National Chiao Tung University. He is well recognized in the field of semiconductor research. He is an expert in compound semiconductor devices and was the pioneer of the development of opto-electronic integrated circuits (OEICs), high electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs), and ion-implanted MESFETs. His current interests include semiconductor nanostructures, quantum devices, spintronics, and HBTs. He has graduated 20 Ph.D. students and over 40 Master's degree students. Dr. Lee was the founding chair of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Taipei Chapter and has also served in the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Taipei Chapter. He has organized and served on several international conferences. He was the recipient of the 1982 Engineer of the Year Award presented by Rockwell International, the 1993 Best Teacher Award presented by the Ministry of Education, the 2000 Outstanding Engineering Professor Award presented by the Chinese Institute of Engineers, the 1993, 1995, and 1997 Outstanding Research Award presented by the National Science Council, the 2000 Outstanding Scholar Award presented by the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, and the 2001 Academic Achievement Award presented by the Ministry of Education.