Fred C. Lee
Position: University Distinguished Professor (ECE); CPES Director
Office: 648 Whittemore Hall, Virginia Tech
Email: fclee@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-7716
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Fred C. Lee received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1968. He went on to receive M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Duke University in 1972 and 1974, respectively.
Dr. Lee is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and prior to that he was the Lewis A. Hester Chair of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is the founder and director of the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), a National Science Foundation engineering research center whose participants include five universities and over 80 corporations. In addition to Virginia Tech, participating CPES universities are the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, North Carolina A&T State University, and the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez.
During his tenure at Virginia Tech, Dr. Lee has supervised to completion 70 Masters-level and 60 Ph.D. students. He is currently supervising 16 Ph.D. students and 4 MS students. Total sponsored research funding secured by Dr. Lee over the last 30 years exceeds $75 million. His research interests include high-frequency power conversion, distributed power systems, space power systems, power factor correction techniques, electronics packaging, high-frequency magnetics, device characterization, and modeling and control of converters. Dr. Lee holds 40 U.S. patents, and has published over 210 journal articles in refereed journals, over 130 invited presentations in professional meetings and more than 530 technical papers in conference proceedings.
Dr. Lee is an active member in the professional community of power electronics engineers. He Chaired the IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference in 1987, the 1995 International Conference on Power Electronics and Drives Systems, which took place in Singapore, and Chaired the 1994, 1997, 2000, 2004 and 2006 International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, held in various cities in China. During 1993-94, Dr. Lee served as president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. In 1989, Dr. Lee received the William E. Newell Power Electronics Award. He is also the recipient of the Virginia Tech Alumni Award for Research Excellence (1990); the Power Conversion and Intelligent Motion Award for Leadership in Power Electronics Education (1990); the College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research (1997); the Arthur E. Fury Award for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Power Electronic Systems Technology (1998); Honorary Sun-Yuen Chuan Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2002-2004); Outstanding Alumni Award, National Cheng Kung University (2004); the IEEE Millennium Medal and the Ernst-Blickle Award for outstanding scientific achievements (2005). Dr. Lee has received honorary professorships from Shanghai University, Nanjing Aeronautical Institute, Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University, Xi-an Jiao Tong University, Beijing Jiao Tong University, Harbin Institute of Technology and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.