Appointments
Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Professor, Computer and Information Science
Co-Director, NSF Expedition in Computing: Carbon Connect
Member, Distributed Systems Laboratory
Member, PRECISE (Penn Research in Embedded Computing
and Integrated Systems Engineering) Center
Affiliate, The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences
Affiliate, Center for AI-Enabled Systems
Biographical Sketch
Benjamin Lee is a Professor in the Department
of Electrical
and Systems Engineering and the Department
of Computer
and Information Science at
the University of
Pennsylvania. Dr. Lee's research focuses on
computer architecture (e.g., microprocessors,
memories, datacenters), energy efficiency, and
environmental sustainability. He builds
interdisciplinary links to machine learning and
algorithmic economics to better design and manage
computer systems.
Dr. Lee was an Assistant and then Associate
Professor at Duke
University. He received his post-doctorate
at Stanford
University, his S.M. and Ph.D.
from Harvard
University, and his B.S. from
the University
of California at Berkeley. He has held
visiting research positions
at Meta AI,
formerly Facebook AI Research, at Microsoft
Research, at Intel
Corporation,
and at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory.
Selected Honors & Awards
2024 IEEE Fellow
2024 ASPLOS Distinguished Reviewer
2022 Persistent Impact Prize, Non-volatile Memory Workshop
2020 Persistent Impact Prize, Non-volatile Memory Workshop
2019 ACM Distinguished Scientist
2019 CACM Research Highlight
2018 HPCA Best Paper Award
2018 HPCA Hall of Fame
2016 ASPLOS Best Paper Award
2014 IEEE Micro Top Picks
2013 Duke Nortel Networks Professorship
2012 NSF CAREER Award
2011 Google Faculty Research Award
2011 CACM Research Highlight
2010 CACM Research Highlight
2009 IEEE Micro Top Picks
2009 NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship
2006 SC Student Research Competition Winner
2004 Harvard Engineering & Applied Sciences Fellowship
2004 ICPP Best Paper
2000 National Merit Scholarship