Kang-Won Lee

Collaborator on wireless networks, mobile computing, network management, and policy technologies research, Lee has been a Research Staff Member at IBM since 2000 and led the Wireless Networking Group at Watson from 2008. In the past several years, he has worked closely with Dakshi Agrawal, Seraphin Calo, Ting He, Bong-Jun Ko, Jorge Lobo, Erich Nahum, Vasileios Pappas, Dinesh Verma, Ho Yin Starsky Wong, Murtaza Zafer, and Petros Zerfos on wireless networks, mobile computing, network management, and policy technologies research. He served as P1 for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Project on Measurement Science for Cloud Computing (total of $1.5M funding for 2010–2012).

From 2006, Lee held a technical leadership role in the ITA (International Technology Alliance for Network and Information Science) program, funded by the US and UK governments. As Industrial Technical Area Leader for Network Theory, he collaborated with Prof. Don Towsley (UMass), Prof. Kin Leung (Imperial College), Prof. Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge), Prof. Mario Gerla (UCLA), and Dr. Ananthram Swami (ARL) to shape the research agenda in networking research.

He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000, and a B.S. and an M.S. from Seoul National University in 1992 and 1994, respectively. Lee has received the C.W. Gear Award (1999), the IBM Research Division Award (2003), and the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2007).

In 2004, he served as Secretary of IEEE TCCC (Technical Committee on Computer Communications) and President of Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America (KOCSEA). Lee has served as Program co-chair for UKC IST and KOCSEA symposiums, and also served on the TPC of IEEE Infocom, SECON, Globecom, ICC, and Broadcom, as well as on NSF review panels. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.