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| Computer Architect & Semiconductor Technologist |
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| Software & Advanced Technology Group |
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sean.<last_name> AT <my_company>.com |
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[ CV | Research Group | Publications | Course Slides | Professional Service | TPC | Awards | Others ]
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| Biosketch
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Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee is an Intel Fellow in the Software and Advanced Technology Group at Intel Corporation. He is responsible
for developing advanced system architecture and at-scale infrastructure solutions for all cloud-native and on-premises datacenters.
Prior to rejoining Intel, his 25-year professional career spanned in-between academia and industry including leading the Boston SysML
Research group at Meta AI, directing the EDA design flow and PDK development at
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), nurturing next-gen technologists as a
tenured Associate Professor in the School of ECE at Georgia Tech, being
an Architecture Manager at Agere Systems and a senior processor architect at Intel.
Dr. Lee holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a
receipt of the Department of Energy Early CAREER Award in 2005 and the NSF CAREER Award
in 2007. He has published two book chapters and more than 100 technical articles including 4 Best Paper Awards, 3 IEEE MICRO Top Picks,
and one 10-year most influential paper award (ITC). He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Computers,
IEEE Trans. on CAD, ACM Trans. on Architecture and Code Optimization, and IEEE MICRO, and is the current Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE MICRO.
He also served as the General Chair of IISWC 2010, the Program Co-Chair of MICRO 2016, the Program Chair of
ISCA 2021 Industry Track, an Executive Committee Member for IEEE-TCCA, an Industry Advisory Board Member for IEEE
Computer Society and the CS Department of the University of Central Florida. Dr. Lee holds 42 US patents and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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| Professional Service
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Editor-in-Chief
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IEEE Micro, 2024-Present
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Industry Advisory Board
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Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 2021-Present
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Assoc. Editor
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IEEE Micro, 2016-2023
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Industry Advisory Board
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IEEE Computer Society, 2016-Present
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Guest Editor
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IEEE Micro Special Topic on Commercial Products, 2021
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Executive Committee Member
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IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA), 2017-2019
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Search Committee Chair
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Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Micro, 2018
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Guest Editor
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IEEE Micro Special Topic on Automotive Computing, 2018
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Assoc. Editor
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IEEE Transactions on Comptuers, 2012-2015.
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Assoc. Editor
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IEEE Transactions on Comptuer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2010-2013.
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Assoc. Editor
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ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, 2009-2015.
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Assoc. Editor
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International Journal of Embedded Systems, 2004-2007.
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Program Subcommittee Chair
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AI/ML System and Platform Design, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023, 2024, 2025.
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Program Track Chair
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Hardware Systems and Architectures for Artificial Intelligence, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2023.
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Program Chair
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Industry Track, 48th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-48), Valencia, Spain, 2021.
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Program Co-Chair
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IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED), 2022.
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Program Chair
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Industry Track, 48th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-48), Valencia, Spain, 2021.
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Program Co-Chair
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49th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-49), Taipei, Taiwan, 2016.
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General Chair
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2010 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC-2010), Atlanta, GA, 2010.
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| Technical Program Committee Member Service (only the major ones listed)
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IEEE MICRO Top Picks
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2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
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ISCA
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2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (Program Chair, Industry Track)
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MICRO
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2010, 2014, 2015, 2016 (Program Co-chair), 2020, 2021
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HPCA
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2007, 2016, 2021
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DAC
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2023, 2024, 2025 (Track Chair: A/ML System)
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ICCAD
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2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 (Track Chair: AI Arch)
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ICCD
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2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
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2013, 2014, 2015
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ASP-DAC
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2012, 2013, 2014
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| Honor and Awards
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IEEE Fellow, 2017. Citation: For contribution to 3D integrated circuits and computer architecture.
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Hall of Famers of HPCA and MICRO.
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IEEE MICRO Top Picks Award (the annual most influential work in computer architecture): Security Refresh (2010), Chasing Carbon (2021), and ACT (2023)"
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IEEE MICRO Top Picks Honorable Mention (the annual most influential work in computer architecture): DNN personalized recommendation (2020) and Cheetah (2021).
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10-Year Most Significant Paper Award, International Test Conference, 2017.
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Best Paper Award, The ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2011), NY, 2011.
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IBM Faculty Award, 2011.
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NSF CAREER Award, 2007.
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ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award, Georgia Tech, 2006.
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Best Paper Award, the 2nd IBM Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers (P=AC2), Yorktown Heights, NY, 2005.
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Department of Energy Early CAREER PI Award, 2005.
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Best Paper Award, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES-2004), Washington D.C., 2004.
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Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan, 2001.
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Best Paper Award, the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-33), Monterey, California, 2000.
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Intel Foundation Fellowship, 2000-2001.
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Intel Division Award, 1998.
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Valedictorian, Class 1990, National Tsinghua University, 1990.
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President Mei Memorial Award, 1989.
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| Random (Un)Admirable Quotes
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"Don't be encumbered by history. Go off and do something wonderful" — Robert Noyce.
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"Conflict is resolved not through compromise but through invention" — Mary Parker Follett.
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"Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry." — Eric S. Raymond in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
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"Necessity is the mother of invention." — Plato.
"Laziness is the father of invention." — Hsien-Hsin Lee and many others.
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"You just need to convince 15 reviewers; it is not hard, is it?" — Hsien-Hsin Lee about how to get a PhD in computer architecture.
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"Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes." — Andrew Heller, IBM.
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"Many venture capitalists are simply lucky imbeciles hiring other lucky imbeciles to run most of the Valley companies." — Frank Petkovich, Business Week.
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"It wasn't until I was editing the movie that I realized that the most powerful thing in the movie isn't there — it's about what could have been. It's not a heroic story about seeing something, going out and getting it. It's about being afraid to get it." — Ang Lee's comment on the making of Brokeback Mountain.
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"I would live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, rather than in a world so simple that my mind could comprehend it without thinking." — Harry Emerson Fosdick.
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