Associate Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332
Office: Klaus Advanced Computing Building 2318
Phone: (404) 894-9483
Email:
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[ Vitae | Research Group | Teaching | Publications | Professional Service | Awards | Patents | Others ]

Biosketch
Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received his PhD degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His main research interests include computer architecture, multiprocessors, low power VLSI, cyber security, 3D graphics, and 3D integrated circuits (a different kind of 3D). Prior to joining academia, he was a senior processor architect at Intel Corporation, in both the product design teams (MD6) and the microprocessor research labs (MRL). He later joined as the architecture manager of StarCore DSP Technology Center, a joint design center of Agere Systems and Motorola Inc. Dr. Lee has co-authored 3 papers that won the Best Paper Awards in MICRO-33, CASES-2004 and IBM PAC2 and two papers nominated for Best Paper Award in HPEC-07 and FPL-07. He holds 4 U.S. patents in the area of memory subsystems and 3D graphics. Dr. Lee received the DoE Early CAREER PI Award in 2005, the 2006 ECE Outstanding Jr. Faculty Member Award at Georgia Tech, and the NSF CAREER Award in 2007. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and the ACM, and a senior member of the IEEE.

Research

Teaching
ECE2030 Introduction to Computer Engineering
ECE3055 Computer Architectures and Operating Systems
ECE4893A/CS4803 Multicore and GPU Programming for Video Games (Coming to you in Fall, 2008!)
ECE4100/6100 Advanced Computer Architecture
ECE7102 RISC Architecture
CS8001 Computer Architecture Seminar, a.k.a. Arch-Beer (co-teach with Milos Prvulovic and Gabriel Loh)
CS8803 Languages and Compilers for Embedded Systems (Coming to you in Summer 2008! Only in KU.)

Professional Service
Assoc. Editor International Journal of Embedded Systems, 2004-Present.
PC Member ICCD-2008, CASES-08, SOCC 2008, ISCA-35, INTERACT-12, CF-08, VLSI-SoC 2008, ICESS 2008, SOCC 2007, ESO 2007, ICCD-07, CASES-07, VLSI-SoC 2007, WIOSCA-07, ICPADS-07, CF-07, HPCA-13, ICCD-06, CASES-06, ISCA-33, WIOSCA-06, SOCC-06, EUC-06, ICPADS-06, IOSCA-05, CASES-05, ICCD-05, ICESS-05, SOCC-05, PDES-05, CASES-04, ICESS-04, CTCES-04, EUC-04
Organizing
Committee
ESWEEK 2008 (A/V Co-Chair), MICRO-39 (Tutorial & Workshop Chair), VLSI-SoC 2007 (Special Session Chair)
Workshop organizer WISA-06, WISA-07
Workshop panelist/
lecturer
MSPC08 in conj. with ASPLOS-08.
Tutorial on 3D integration for architects in conj. with ISCA-35.

Awards
¥ NSF CAREER Award, 2007
¥ ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award, Georgia Tech, 2006
¥ Best Paper Award, the 2nd IBM Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers (P=AC2), Yorktown Heights, NY, 2005.
¥ Department of Energy Early CAREER PI Award, 2005.
¥ Best Paper Award, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES-2004), Washington D.C., 2004.
¥ Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan, 2001.
¥ Best Paper Award, the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-33), Monterey, California, 2000.
¥ Intel Foundation Fellowship, 2000-2001.
¥ Intel Division Award, 1998.
¥ Valedictorian, Class 1990, National Tsinghua University, 1990.
¥ President Mei Memorial Award, 1989. (Learn more about Mei in English, or Wikipedia in Chinese. Did you find any inconsistency?)

Patents
US Patent Patent Information Assignee Year granted
6,223,276 Pipelined processing of short data streams using data prefetching. (with Vladimir Pentkvoski and Hsien-Cheng Hsieh) Intel Corp. 2001
6,356,270 Efficient Utilization of Write-combining Buffers. (with Vladimir Pentkovski, Hsien-Cheng Hsieh, Maiyuran Subramanium.) Intel Corp. 2001
6,369,813 Processing Polygon Meshes using Mesh Pool Window. (with Vladimir Pentkovski, Deep Buch, Michael Dwyer, and Hsien-Cheng Hsieh.) Intel Corp. 2001
6,643,745 Method and Apparatus for prefetching data into cache. (with Salvador Palanca, Niranjan Cooray, Angad Narang, Vladimir Pentkovski, Steve Tsai, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Jagannath Keshava, Steve Spangler, Suresh Kuttuva, Praveen Mosur.) Intel Corp. 2003

If you have nothing better to do ...
¥ Non-peer reviewed articles
¥ My Photo Album
¥ My Flickr
¥ Google calendar

Random (Un)Admirable Quotes
¥ "Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere" — Ratatouille.
¥ "Avoid boring (other) people" — James D. Watson's latest book title.
¥ "Winners don't give up." — Winners. (Or maybe Losers said that and winners adopted it.)
¥ "We are a big banana now... we can't rely on others to do our research and development for us." — Andy Grove in response to DEC's filing 10 patent infringements against Intel.
¥ "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." — Albert Einstein.
¥ "Necessity is the mother of invention." — Plato.
"Laziness is the father of invention." — Hsien-Hsin Lee.
¥ "You just need to convince 15 reviewers; it is not hard, is it?" — Hsien-Hsin Lee about how to get a PhD in computer architecture.
¥ "Don't be encumbered by history, go off and do something wonderful." — Bob Noyce (inventor of practical integrated circuits), Intel.
¥ "Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes." — Andrew Heller, IBM.
¥ "When you find yourself competing with silicon, don't" — Arno Penzias (Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1978), former VP of Bell Labs.
¥ "Many venture capitalists are simply lucky imbeciles hiring other lucky imbeciles to run most of the Valley companies." — Frank Petkovich, Business Week.
¥ "It wasn't until I was editing the movie that I realized that the most powerful thing in the movie isn't there — it's about what could have been. It's not a heroic story about seeing something, going out and getting it. It's about being afraid to get it." — Ang Lee's comment on the making of Brokeback Mountain.

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