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Benjamin C Lee

Benjamin Lee's research focuses on scalable technologies, energy-efficient computer architectures, and high-performance applications. He is particularly interested in analytics, statistical inference, and machine learning to enable qualitatively new studies in these areas. He is also interested in technology, economics, and policy for environmentally sustainable information technology infrastructure.

Lee held an NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship at Stanford University (2009). He also held visiting research positions at Microsoft Research (2008), Intel Corporation (2007), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2006). He earned his B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley (2004) and his S.M., Ph.D. from Harvard University (2008).

Contact Information:
  • Office Location: 210 Hudson Hall Engineering Building
  • Office Phone: (919) 660-5043
  • Email Address: Email address for Benjamin C Lee
  • Web Page:
    http://duke.edu/~bcl15/
Education:
PhDHarvard2008
SMHarvard2006
BSUC Berkeley2004
Curriculum Vitae
Specialties:

Computer Architecture
Computer Engineering
High Performance Computing

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions:

  • Google Faculty Research Award, 2011
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2011
  • Research Highlight, Communications of the ACM, 2010
  • Computing Innovation Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2009
  • Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, IEEE Micro, 2009
  • Harvard University Nomination, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2008
  • Invited Participant, 38th St. Gallen Symposium, 2008
  • Invited Participant, 37th St. Gallen Symposium, 2007
  • First Place, Student Research Competition, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC), 2006
  • Engineering and Applied Sciences Fellowship, Harvard University, 2004
  • Best Paper, Int’l Conf. Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2004
  • National Merit Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley, 2000

Courses Taught:
  • ECE 193 - UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (Synopsis)
  • COMPSCI 550 - ADV COMPUTER ARCHITEC I (Synopsis)

Representative Publications: (More Publications)
  1. V.J. Reddi, B.C. Lee, T. Chilimbi, K. Vaid, Mobile processors for energy-efficient web search, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), vol 29 no. 4 (2011), pp. 1-39
  2. B. C. Lee, D. Brooks, Applied inference: Case studies in microarchitectural design, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), vol 7 no. 2 (2010), pp. 1-37
  3. O. Shacham, O. Azizi, M. Wachs, W. Qadeer, Z. Asgar, K. Kelley, P. Stevenson, A. Solomatnikov, A. Firoozshahian, B. C. Lee, S. Richardson, M. Horowitz, Why design must change: Rethinking digital design, IEEE Micro (2010)
  4. B. C. Lee, E. Ipek, O. Mutlu, D. Burger, Phase change memory architecture and the quest for scalability, Communications of the ACM (CACM), Research Highlight, vol 53 no. 7 (2010), pp. 99-106
  5. O. Azizi, A. Mahesri, B. C. Lee, S. Patel, M. Horowitz, Energy performance tradeoffs in processor architecture and circuit design: A marginal cost analysis, Proc. 37th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) (2010)