Wooram Lee

Wooram Lee (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2001 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 2012. From 2012 to 2015, he was with Broadcom, Irvine, CA, USA, where he worked on multi-Gbps transceivers and data converters for broadband communication. From 2015 to 2020, he was a Research Staff Member at the RF Circuits and Systems Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, where he was involved with the development of high-performance mmWave phased array circuits and systems. He was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, from 2017 to 2020. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA. His current research interests include mmWave and sub-THz IC and systems for next-generation communications and sensing.

Dr. Lee received the Best Student Paper Award (First Place as a Faculty Advisor in 2023) and Best Industry Paper Award (Second Place in 2019) from the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Predoctoral Fellowship (the Sole Winner) in 2010 and 2011, and the Samsung Graduate Fellowship in 2007–2012. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award of the IEEE Radar Conference in 2009. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES, a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS), and International Microwave Symposium (IMS).