Peter Lee

In brief:

Peter Lee is a Professor and Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research contributions are in areas related to the foundations of software reliability, program analysis, security, and language design. A Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, Peter Lee is called upon in diverse venues as a contributor in research, education, and policy making.

More detailed:

Peter Lee is the head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the CMU faculty in 1987, immediately after completing his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan.

Peter Lee is an active researcher, educator, administrator, and servant to the academic community. His research contributions lie mainly in areas related to the foundations of software reliability, program analysis, security, and language design. He has published extensively in major academic journals and international symposia, with several of his papers receiving "test of time" awards for their seminal contributions to the field. Peter Lee is the recipient of several research awards, including the ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, for the seminal contribution of "proof-carrying code" in computer systems research. He is an elected fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

As the head of the Computer Science Department, Peter Lee oversees one of the top computing research organizations in the world. In addition to its substantial research program, the department offers doctoral and undergraduate programs in computer science that are consistently top-ranked in the US. Prior to assuming his current position, Dr. Lee was briefly the Vice Provost for Research. In this role, he provided administrative oversight and strategic guidance for the university's research activities, an enterprise that exceeds $400M in annual expenditures. From 2000 to 2004, Peter Lee was the Associate Dean for undergraduate programs in the School of Computer Science. During this period, Dr. Lee shepherded the rise of Carnegie Mellon's undergraduate computer science programs to national prominence, including a #2 ranking in the Gourman Report and a six-fold increase in the number of women enrolled.

Peter Lee is dedicated servant to the computing community. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association and chairs it's Government Affairs Committee. He also sits on the CRA's Education Committee. He is a member of the Computing Community Consortium Council, the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and the Defense Research Projects Agency's Information Science and Technology Board (where he is the Vice-Chair). Dr. Lee is called upon as an expert in diverse venues, including distinguished lectures at major universities, memberships on senior government advisory panels, corporate and university advisory boards, and court testimony. Recently, he testified before the Science and Technology Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He maintains the widely read weblog, CSDiary.com.