Board of Governors - Past President

Byeong Gi Lee

Byeong Gi Lee received B.S. degree from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. He worked for Granger Associates and AT&T Bell Laboratories before joining Seoul National University, where he served as a Vice Chancellor for Research and is presently a professor in electrical engineering.

He served the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) as Director of Asia Pacific Region, Director of Membership Programs Development, Director of Magazines, a Member-at-Large on the ComSoc Board of Governors, Vice President of Membership Development, and Vice President of Member Relations. He currently serves as the President of ComSoc. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Global Communications Newsletter and the Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN).

He was the President of Korea Society for Engineering Education (KSEE), the President of Korea Institute of Communication Sciences (KICS), and Vice President of the Accreditation Board of Engineering Education of Korea (ABEEK). He was a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology, the Presidential Advisory Committee of Policy Planning, and the Policy Committee of the Ministry of Justice. Most recently, he served as a Commissioner of the Korea Communications Commission (KCC).

His current fields of research interest include communication systems and integrated broadband networks. He is a co-author of Broadband Telecommunication Technology (1st and 2nd editions), Scrambling Techniques for Digital Transmission, Scrambling Techniques for Wireless Communications, Integrated Broadband Networks, Broadband Wireless Access and Local Networks: Mobile WiMAX and WiFi, and Wireless Communications Resources Management. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK).