Byeong Gi Lee

Not to be confused with Lee Byeong-gi.

In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.

The native form of this personal name is Lee Byeong Gi. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Byeong Gi Lee is an emeritus professor at Seoul National University, South Korea.

Byeong Gi Lee
Born	South Korea
Alma mater	Wireless communications
Awards	IEEE Fellow Member of Korean Academy of Engineering
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical Engineering Telecommunications
Institutions	Seoul National University

Early life

Born in Korea, Lee studied his undergraduate degree at Seoul National University, Korea. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from UCLA, USA.

Career

Lee worked at Granger Associates and AT&T Bell Labs before joining SNU, Korea as a faculty member. He became a professor of electrical engineering and subsequently Vice Chancellor of Research. Later, he became a Commissioner of the Korean Communications Commission. He was active in IEEE Communications Society and had served as the society President. He was also the 23rd President of KICS - Korean Information and Communications Society. Lee later retired in 2016 as an emeritus professor of SNU.

Awards

Lee was elected to Fellow of the IEEE in the year 1997 for contributions to digital transform and filtering, to broadband telecommunications, and to digital scrambling and member of Korean National Academy of Engineering.