Edward A. Lee

Edward A. Lee is Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS). His research focuses on Cyber-Physical Systems and Design Automation (CPSDA), Programming Systems (PS), Signal Processing (SP), Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC), Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS), and Design, Modeling and Analysis (DMA). He is the director of iCyPhy, the Berkeley Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center. Lee has led the development of influential open-source software packages, notably Ptolemy and Lingua Franca. He has been on the faculty since 1986 and has graduated 40 PhD students.

Edward A. Lee is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in Cyber-Physical Systems, Embedded Systems, Real Time Systems, Modeling and Simulation, and Philosophy of Technology. His research focuses on the design and analysis of systems that integrate computational and physical components, emphasizing synchronous data flow, scientific workflow management, and heterogeneous system modeling. Lee's work addresses challenges in real-time scheduling, simulation, and the synthesis of embedded systems, with applications in digital communication and cyber-physical system modeling. His contributions include the development of frameworks like Ptolemy for simulating and prototyping complex systems.