Sunghoon Ivan I. Lee

Sunghoon “Ivan” Lee is a Donna M and Robert J Manning Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at UMass Amherst. He received his PhD in Computer Science, MS in Computer Science, and MS in Electrical Engineering, all from the University of California Los Angeles in 2010, 2013, and 2014, respectively. From 2014 to 2016, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School.

Ivan is a recipient of the NSF CRII Award and NIH Trailblazer Award for young investigators. He is currently an Editor for the International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME), and an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH) and the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an elected Member of the Technical Committee on Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Systems of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). Ivan has served as the General Conference Chair for several premier conferences in the field, including ACM SenSys in 2022 and IEEE BSN in 2023. Ivan has also served as the co-chair of an NIH study section for the NICHD-NCMRR Early Career Research Award in 2022. Ivan has earned recognition within UMass Amherst with the Armstrong Research Award, the Lilly Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, and the ADVANCE Fellowship for Faculty Equity.