Edward A. Lee was a founder of Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (BDTI) in 1991 and serves as a Senior Technical Adviser.
Lee is the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at U.C. Berkeley and is a Fellow of the IEEE. His DSP involvement began at Bell Telephone Labs with extensive work in programmable DSPs and exploratory work with modems and simultaneous voice and data transmission. His research interests center on design, modeling, and simulation of embedded, real-time computational systems.
Lee is a director of CHESS, the Berkeley Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems, and is the director of the Berkeley Ptolemy project.
Lee’s degrees are from Yale, M.I.T., and U.C. Berkeley.