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Thomas H. Lee is concurrently a tenured Stanford University professor, successful entrepreneur, and highly respected engineer. He holds S.B., S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and began his career in industry as a circuit designer at Analog Devices building high-speed clock recovery devices. He joined Rambus in 1992 to develop high-speed analog circuitry for CMOS RAMs. Prof. Lee also contributed to the clock and PLL circuitry on several microprocessors, notably the K6, K7 and K8, at Advanced Micro Devices, as well as the StrongARM and Alpha CPUs at Digital Equipment Corporation. In 1994, Prof. Lee joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at Stanford University, where his research focuses on gigahertz communication circuits, both wireline and wireless. He is the author of the widely used textbooks The Design of CMOS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (Cambridge University Press, 1998; second edition, 2004), and Planar Microwave Engineering (Cambridge Press, 2005), as well as four other books on RF circuit design, and is the recipient of a coveted Packard Foundation Fellowship. Prof. Lee has won the ISSCC Best Paper Award twice an award considered to be among the most prestigious in semiconductor circuit design as well as several other conference Best Paper awards. He has been a IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of two separate IEEE societies, is a member of the Solid-State Circuits Society AdCom, and has been granted forty-two U.S. patents. Prof. Lee co-founded Matrix Semiconductor in 1998, and was instrumental in the design of the first 3-D Memory chip. Matrix was acquired by SanDisk in January of 2006. | 