Edward A. Lee is the
Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor in EECS at the University of
California at Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. He
is the author of several books and more than 300 papers and has
delivered more than 170 keynote and other invited talks at venues
worldwide. Although he has published several textbooks, Plato and the Nerd is Lee's first book for a general audience.
Lee's research at Berkeley focuses on cyber-physical systems, which integrate physical dynamics with software and networks. His focus is on the use of deterministic models as a central part of the engineering toolkit for such systems. He led the development of several influential open-source software packages, notably Ptolemy and its spinoffs.
From 2005-2008, Lee served as chair of the Electrical Engineering Division and then chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at UC Berkeley. From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of technical staff at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey. He is a co-founder of BDTI, Inc. and has consulted for a number of other companies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, won the 1997 Frederick Emmons Terman Award for Engineering Education, and received the 2016 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS).
For more details, see Lee's professional website.
Lee's research at Berkeley focuses on cyber-physical systems, which integrate physical dynamics with software and networks. His focus is on the use of deterministic models as a central part of the engineering toolkit for such systems. He led the development of several influential open-source software packages, notably Ptolemy and its spinoffs.
From 2005-2008, Lee served as chair of the Electrical Engineering Division and then chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at UC Berkeley. From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of technical staff at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey. He is a co-founder of BDTI, Inc. and has consulted for a number of other companies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, won the 1997 Frederick Emmons Terman Award for Engineering Education, and received the 2016 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS).
For more details, see Lee's professional website.