Thomas H.

Lee
(electronic engineer)

Thomas H. Lee is a professor in the

Department of Electrical Engineering at
Stanford University.[1] Lee's research focus
has been on gigahertz-speed wireline and
wireless integrated circuits built in
conventional silicon technologies,
particularly CMOS; microwave; and RF
circuits.[2]
 Thomas H. Lee

Nationality American

Alma mater MIT

Known for CMOS, microwave

Awards Ho-Am Prize in

Engineering (2011)

Scientific career

Fields Electrical Engineering

Institutions Stanford University

Thesis A fully integrated,

inductorless FM
 receiver

Doctoral advisor James Kerr Roberge

(MIT)

Things about Stuff (https://exploreintrose

ms.stanford.edu/frosh/things-about-stuf
f) is a popular freshman course, taught by
Lee. This course tells stories behind the
greatest inventions, including the
telephone, the television and the
transistor.[3]

He has written and co-authored several

books and papers, and in 2012, concluded
a tour of duty as the director of DARPA's
Microsystems Technology Office.

Early life and education

Lee received his S.B. (1983), S.M. (1985)

and Sc.D. (1990) degrees in electrical
engineering, from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.

He was also awarded an Honoris Causa

doctorate from the University of Waterloo
in 2012 in recognition of his contributions
to wireless technology.[4]

Career
Lee joined Analog Devices in 1990 where
he was primarily involved in the design of
high-speed clock recovery devices. In
1992, he joined Rambus Inc. where he
developed high-speed analog circuitry for
500 megabyte/s CMOS DRAMs. He has
also contributed to the development of
PLLs in the StrongARM, Alpha and AMD
K6/K7/K8 microprocessors.

Lee joined the Department of Electrical

Engineering in 1993. In 1994 he founded
the Stanford Microwave Integrated Circuits
Laboratory.
In 1998, Lee cofounded Matrix
Semiconductor (acquired by Sandisk in
2006). He founded ZeroG Wireless
(acquired by Microchip Technology) and is
a cofounder of Ayla Networks.[5]

Lee was director of DARPA's

Microsystems Technology Office from
April 2011 to October 2012.[6]

Since early 2016, he has served on the

Board of Directors of Xilinx. As of 2018, he
holds more than 60 U.S. patents.

Awards and memberships

2021 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
Award[7]
2016-2018 Distinguished Lecturer, Solid-
State Circuits Society of the IEEE[8]
2015 IEEE Fellow for contributions to
the design of CMOS radio-frequency
integrated circuits.[9]
April 2011 Awarded the Ho-Am Prize in
Engineering, informally known as "the
Korean Nobel Prize."[10]
In 2012 he was awarded the U.S.
Secretary of Defense Medal for
Exceptional Civilian Service for his work
at DARPA, and was awarded an Honoris
Causa Doctorate in Electrical
 Engineering from the University of
Waterloo in 2013.
A freshman seminar he inaugurated,
"Things about Stuff" (EE14N), was
recognized by the American Society of
Engineering Education as one of several
"hot courses" in engineering.[11]

Selected publications

The design of CMOS radio-frequency

integrated circuits (https://books.google.
com/books?id=DzcMK-2mFQUC) ,
Cambridge University Press, 2004,
ISBN 0-521-83539-9
The Design and Implementation of Low-
Power CMOS Radio Receivers (https://bo
oks.google.com/books?id=4IDLK8NMD
BQC) , co-authored with Derek K.
Shaeffer, Springer, 1999, ISBN 0-7923-
8518-7
The Design of Low Noise Oscillators (http
s://books.google.com/books?id=KzsaA
nJwBYoC) , co-authored with Ali
Hajimiri, Springer, 1999, ISBN 0-7923-
8455-5
Planar Microwave Engineering: A
Practical Guide to Theory, Measurement,
and Circuits (https://books.google.com/
books?id=uoj3IWFxbVYC) , Thomas H.
 Lee, Cambridge University Press, 2004,
ISBN 0-521-83526-7, ISBN 978-0-521-
83526-8, 880 pages

External links

Thomas Lee, Stanford University (http

s://profiles.stanford.edu/thomas-lee)
Thomas H. Lee (http://smirc.stanford.ed
u/people.html) Stanford Microwave
Integrated Circuits Laboratory (SMIrC)

References

1. "Thomas Lee's Profile | Stanford Profiles" (h

ttps://profiles.stanford.edu/thomas-lee?ta
b=bio) .
2. "SMIrC Lab - People" (http://smirc.stanford.
edu/people.html) .
3. "Four Stanford Engineering professors
named IEEE fellows" (https://engineering.st
anford.edu/news/four-stanford-engineering
-professors-named-ieee-fellows) . 9 June
2016.
4. "SMIrC Lab - People" (http://smirc.stanford.
edu/people.html) .
5. "Ayla Networks raises $5.4M to connect
everything" (http://www.bizjournals.com/sa
njose/news/2013/06/05/ayla-networks-rais
es-54m-to-connect.html?page=2) . Silicon
Valley Business Journal. Retrieved
2013-11-03.
6. "Bio: Dr. Thomas Lee" (https://web.archive.
org/web/20120915194237/http://www.dar
pa.mil/Our_Work/MTO/Personnel/Dr_Thom
as_Lee.aspx) . DARPA Microsystems
Technology Office. Archived from the
original (https://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/
MTO/Personnel/Dr_Thomas_Lee.aspx) on
2012-09-15. Retrieved 2012-08-27.
7. ((Cite
web|url=https://www.ieee.org/content/dam
/ieee-
org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/recipients
/kirchhoff_rl.pdf ))
8. "Past Distinguished Lecturers - IEEE Solid-
State Circuits Society" (https://sscs.ieee.or
g/dl-program/past-distinguished-
lecturers) .
 9. "Four Stanford Engineering professors
named IEEE fellows" (https://engineering.st
anford.edu/news/four-stanford-engineering
-professors-named-ieee-fellows) . 9 June
2016.
10. "Prize winners-By years - THE SAMSUNG
HO-AM PRIZE | SAMSUNG FOUNDATION"
(http://www.samsungfoundation.org/html/
eng/prize/hoam_winner_list.asp) .
11. "ASEE Prism Magazine" (http://www.prism-
magazine.org/summer11/feature_01.cfm)
. Retrieved 2014-04-18.

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