David Lee

David Lee
Vice President and Director,
Networking and Mobility Lab
Palo Alto

Biography

David Lee is Vice President and Director of the Networking and Mobility Lab at HP Labs.

The lab's mission is to conduct fundamental research in networking and mobility and to create and transfer innovations and disruptive technologies to HP business units for commercialization. The current research focus of the lab includes: Software Defined Networking (SDN), Cloud network management, Seamless Mobile Connectivity (SMC), and Internet enabling technologies.

David Lee started his research career at Bell Labs after receiving a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Columbia University in 1986. As lab VP, he created and served as the founding Director of Bell Labs Research China. He joined HP Labs from The Ohio State University where he was Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor.

 

Research interests

  • Network system management
  • Information and networking system security
  • Network system reliability and interoperability
  • Image processing and computer vision
  • Approximation theory
  • Numerical methods
  • Theoretical computer science
  • Circuit design and analysis

Publications

He has published over 100 technical papers under the following research categories: Network System Management, Information and Networking System Security, Data Networking and Internet Protocol Systems, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Approximation Theory and Numerical Methods, Theoretical Computer Science, and Circuit Design and Analysis.

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Awards

  • IEEE Fellow, 1997
  • Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award, Bell Labs Research, 1997
  • IFIP International Conference TestCom 2005 Best Paper Award: "Coping with Non-determinism in Network Protocol Testing”
  • IFIP International Conference PSTV-FORTE 2000 Best Paper Award: "Integrated System Interoperability Testing with Applications to VoIP"

Professional Activities

  • Co-Editor in Chief, Networking Science (2009-present)
  • Senior Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2003-2010)
  • Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1996-2003)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Complexity (1989-2006)
  • Editor, I/S: a Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society (2004-present)
  • Executive Committee Chair, IEEE ICNP (2004-2009)
  • Steering Committee Chair, IEEE ICNP (2000-2009)
  • Co-Chair, NSF ICER Workshop (2005)
  • Steering Committee Chair, ACM Sigcomm Asia Workshop (2004-2005)
  • Member, ACM Sigcomm Technical Advisory Committee (2004-2005)
  • General Co-Chair, IEEE ICNP1996
  • Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, IEEE ICNP 1994, 2000
  • Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, ACM Sigcomm Asia Workshop 2005
  • Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2002
  • Counselor, NSF of China
  • Member, Hong Kong University External Review Board
  • Panel Member, Hong Kong RGC (Research Grants Council, the only government research funding agency of Hong Kong)

Patents

  1. Method and Apparatus for Designing Gateways for Computer Networks
    No. 5,327,544, 1994, U. S.
  2. Method and Apparatus for Testing Protocols
    No. 5,659,555, 1997, U. S.
  3. Method and Apparatus for Discrete Tomography
    No. 6,459,758, Oct. 2002, U. S.
  4. Hit-Or-Jump: An Algorithm for Embedded Testing With Applications to IN
    No. 6,681,374, Jan. 20, 2004, U.S.
  5. Prevention of Deadlocks and Livelocks in Lossless, Backpressured Packet Networks
    No. 6859435, Feb. 2005, U. S.
  6. Testing of Network Routers under Given Routing Protocols
    No. 6859435, Feb. 2005, U. S.
  7. Prevention of Deadlocks and Livelocks in Lossless, Backpressured Packet Networks
    No. 6859435, Feb. 2005, U. S.
  8. Testing of Network Routers under Given Routing Protocols
    No. 6859435, Feb. 2005, U. S.