Chih-Kung Lee
| Chih-Kung Lee | |
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| 李世光 | |
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| Minister of Economic Affairs of the Republic of China | |
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Assumed office 20 May 2016 |
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| Deputy | Shen Jong-chin |
| Vice |
Yang Wei-fuu Wang Mei-hua, Yang Wei-fuu |
| Preceded by | John Deng |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 1959 (age 57) |
| Nationality |
 Republic of China
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| Alma mater |
National Taiwan University Cornell University |
| Occupation | Distinguished Professor, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University |
Chih-Kung Lee (known also as C.K. Lee; Chinese: 李世光) was born in Taipei, Taiwan in October 1959. He received his B.S degree in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University and then obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, majoring in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, with a minor in Physics. He is known as the inventor of modal sensors and actuators. His industrial experiences include positions as Director General of Engineering & Applied Sciences at Taiwan’s National Science Council (NSC), Executive Vice President of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and President of the Institute for Information Industry (III). He has been an advisor to the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Economic Affairs and various other governmental agencies. He is concurrently a Distinguished Professor at National Taiwan University at both the Institute of Applied Mechanics (IAM) and the Dept. of Engineering Science & Ocean Engineering.
C.K. Lee received his B.S degree in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1981. After serving his two years mandatory military service in Taiwan’s Air Force, he continued his graduate studies with a fellowship at Cornell University in New York where he received a M.S and Ph.D., majoring in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, with a minor in Physics. During his PhD studies at Cornell, he developed piezoelectric modal sensors and actuators. This innovation was important in the control of flexible structures as it resolved modal spillover.
In 1987, C.K. Lee joined IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California as a Research Staff Member and later as a Staff to the IBM ARC Laboratory Director. His research work at IBM was primarily on the interdisciplinary areas related to magnetic disk drives, optoelectronic systems, metrology systems and piezoelectric systems. He was awarded an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his work on reducing the thermal track mis-registration of the 3.5 inch, 320 MByte, IBM 0661 hard disk file, a highly profitable commercial product at that time. He received two distinguished Invention Awards for his inventions and patents on laser encoders, nanometer fly height measurement systems, piezoelectric strain rate gages, and acceleration rate sensors for early shock arrival.
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