Dr. Lee is the Founder of Innovation Works. Since July 2005, he served as Vice President of Engineering at Google Inc. and President of its Chinese operations. He is widely recognized for his pioneering work in speech recognition and artificial intelligence. Dr. Lee joined Google from Microsoft, where he was Corporate Vice President and founder of Microsoft Research China in 1998. Before Microsoft, he was Vice President and General Manager at Silicon Graphics Inc., overseeing internet and multimedia software. Dr. Lee also spent six years at Apple as Vice President of its interactive media group. Earlier, he was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he developed the world’s first speaker-independent continuous speech-recognition system between 1988 and 1990. He has been Chairman of the Advisory Board at WI Harper since October 1, 2009. Dr. Lee holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Computer Science with highest honors from Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
