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Donovan
Lee was born in San Francisco, California in 1978. He was Darth
Vader
for Halloween when he was just three years old when he had his first
experience performing in front of a crowd. His costume and cape
ripped as he tripped on the stairs on the way to the podium. In
1984, he moved to San Jose, California and attended public elementary,
junior, and senior high schools. He was a top (top 100) graduate
of
his class at Silver Creek High School in East Side San Jose.
There, he
was a student body officer and an avid participant in extracurricular
activites such as Interact and Key clubs. He later ran for
student
body President and lost the election by a slim margin. Donovan
was the
captain of his boys tennis team and in 1994 and 1996 went to the
California Central Coast Section tennis championships. In 1996 he
and
his partner became the #1 seeded boys doubles team in San Jose and made
it to the semifinals, losing to a team from a school in the rich
neighborhoods of Cupertino, California. Donovan then went to
Berkeley,
despite these failures, and received degrees in EECS and
Materials Science in 2000 at Cal. He worked at Advanced Micro
Devices for 2 yrs and returned to Berkeley in 2002 to pursue a PhD in
Applied Science &
Technology. In 2006, Donovan spent 4 months at Qualcomm MEMS
Technologies where he developed a love for academia and decided he
would rather be a professor, work at a startup or just plain do
anything else. He has published over 3 papers and holds over 0
patents. He has not written any books or magazine articles although he
has read many.
Donovan resides in Daly City, CA with his grandmother, girlfriend and
two dogs.
NON-ACADEMIC INTERESTS
Quadrapedic highly-organic pelage-insulated
organisms with
high aspect ratio inscissors and wagging tails
Fossil-fuel powered high-output statically-unstable modes
transportation
CO2-saturated,
C2H6O-based
solutions and their fluid
dynamics particularly under
large strains
Dynamics of rolling-with-slipping spheres under impact from a
semi-crystalline matrix of cylindrical-beam cross-points under tension
PERSONAL POLICIES
-I'll
believe it when I see it; equations are too hard to remember.
-Nobody tries to give bad advice.
-Everything works out in the end, unless you give up.
-It's social hour, let's socialize.
-The government should not be able to tax you for buying a used car,
for which sales tax was already paid.
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