Charles Lee

Professor Charles H. Lee received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Applied Mathematics in 1996 from the University of California at Irvine. He then spent three years as a Post-Doctorate Fellow at the Center for Research in Scientific Computation, Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was the recipient of the 1997-1999 National Science Foundation Industrial Post-Doctorate Fellowship. He became an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at the California State University Fullerton in 1999, Associate Professor in 2005, and since 2011 he has been a Full Professor. Dr. Lee has been collaborating with scientists and engineers at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 2000. His research has been Computational Applied Mathematics with emphases in Aerospace Engineering, Telecommunications, Acoustic, Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics. He has published over 65 professionally refereed articles. Dr. Lee received Outstanding Paper Awards from the International Congress on Biological and Medical Engineering in 2002 and the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Digital Image Processing in 2017. Dr. Lee also received NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal in 2018 for the Development of his Innovative Tools to Assess the Communications & Architectures Performance of the Mars Relay Network.