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Der-Tsai Lee | |
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 Der-Tsai Lee was in Taipei, Taiwan, March 29, 2009 | |
| Born | 1949 (age 74–75)[1] |
| Alma mater | National Taiwan University (BS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Computational Geometry |
| Awards | IEEE Fellow (1992) ACM Fellow (1997) Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Academia Sinica |
| Doctoral advisor | Franco P. Preparata |
Der-Tsai Lee, also known as D. T. Lee, is a Taiwanese computer scientist, known for his work in computational geometry. For many years he was a professor at Northwestern University. He has been a distinguished research fellow of the Institute for Information Science at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan since 1998. From 1998 to 2008, he was director of this institute. He had been the 14th President of National Chung Hsing University from August 1, 2011 to Jul 31, 2015. More than in academia, he had been an advisory committee member of National Security Council (Taiwan) from 2016 to 2020. Currently, he has been the chairman of Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan since 2020.
- ^ Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2020-06-11