Prof. Fred C Lee received the B.S. degree from the National Cheng Kung University, in 1968, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University in 1972 and 1974, respectively, all in electrical engineering. 
He is currently a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, where he is also the Director of the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center established in 1998. He holds 69 U.S. patents and has published 238 journal articles and more than 596 refereed technical papers. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, he has supervised to completion 71 Ph.D. and 80 Master’s students. His research interests include high-frequency power conversion, distributed power systems, renewable energy, power quality, high-density electronics packaging and integration, and modeling and control.

Dr. Lee received the William E. Newell Power Electronics Award in 1989, the Arthur E. Fury Award for Leadership and Innovation in Advancing Power Electronic Systems Technology in 1998, and the Ernst-Blickle Award for achievement in the field of power electronics in 2005. He has served as president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society during 1993–1994. He was named to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.