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Donovan Lee received B.S. degrees in EECS and materials science engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. He was at Advanced Micro Devices in Sunnyvale, CA, as a nonvolatile memory engineer until 2002, when he joined the UC Berkeley Semiconductor Device Research Group. There, he will complete the Ph.D. shortly. He was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at VLSI-TSA in 2007 for work on fluidic MOS sensors. His current research interests include NEMS device physics, advanced CMOS technologies and ultra-low-power computation. Not-so Professional Biography Donovan Lee was born in San Francisco, California in 1978. He was Darth Vader for Halloween when he was just three years old. This was 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 to receive a prize. Mr. Lee now hates Halloween. 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 (okay, he also belonged to various honor societies but never attended meetings). He later ran for student body President and lost the election by a slim margin (said his best friends, who were also coincidentally the election committee... ....). 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 spoiled neighborhoods of Cupertino, California. Donovan then went to Berkeley, despite these failures, and received degrees in EECS and Materials Science in 2000. 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 solidified his goal to stay in Academia and become a professor. He plans to graduate with the PhD in Spring 2008 Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009. Donovan is obsessed with all types of transportation except hot-air balloon and Razor scooting. He is an avid road cyclist, mountain biker, motorcyclist, driver and jumbo jet passenger. Donovan resides in Daly City, CA with his grandmother, and two dogs. He is an expert practicioner of selective memory and unfinished garage projects. He has published over 5 papers and holds over 0 patents. He has not written any books or magazine articles although he has read many. PERSONAL POLICIES -I'll
believe it when I see it; equations are too hard to remember. (12/8/08)
Modeling is a fast way to gain intuition.
-Nobody tries to give bad advice. -Everything works out in the end, unless you give up. (9/25/09) Everything works out in the end. -It's social hour, let's socialize. Nothing is free, including free food. (12/8/08) -The government should not be able to tax you for buying a used car, for which sales tax was already paid. -Everyone thinks they've done the hardest part of the project. -Real friends don't need you for anything, they just love you. -The method is the experiment, not the results. -When people are consistently late, they consistently don't respect you. FORTUNE COOKIES WORTH SAVING
"The project
you have in mind will soon gain momentum."
"Your present plans are going to succeed." "You will find your solution where you least expect it." "You will be rewarded for being a good listener this week." "There are lessons to be learned by listening to others." |
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