C. C. Lee is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has a Ph. D. from Princeton and has been on the faculty at Northwestern since 1980. In terms of his research career, on the theory side, he has published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and in Journal of ACM, the two most respected journals in EE and CS; on the application side, he has done a huge number of sponsored research projects and served as industry consultants with a wide variety of telecom and networking companies - Juniper Networks, Motorola, AT&T Bell Labs, Reuters Information Technology, SBC Comm., NORTEL Networks, U S West, Wildblue Communications, Liberty Media, 3COM, ARDIS, Pacific Broadband Communications, Zenith, BellCore, Cambia Networks, Raytheon, Recon Optical, Bell & Howell, American Iron & Steel Institute, Chrysler, WMS Gaming, Illinois Superconductor, among others. His research interests cover network protocol design and performance evaluation; speech and image processing, network QoS, packet scheduling; wireless mobile communication systems and networks; detection and estimation, and cryptography.
