San-Liang Lee received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 1995. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) in 1988 and became a Full Professor in 2002 and a Chair Professor in 2019. He was the Vice President of the university from 2011 to 2014. He served as the Dean of Academic Affairs Office, NTUST, from 2008 to 2010. He was the Chairperson of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering for 2005-2008. He was the Director of the program office for the National Innovative Education Program on Image Display Technology, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, from 2005 to 2009. He was the Director of the research program on Silicon Photonics and Integrated Circuits sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan from 2018 to 2023. He was the Director of Photonic Division, Department of Engineering and Technologies, NSTC from 2021 to 2023, and the dean of Industry-Academia Innovation College, NTUST, from 2022 to 2024. He was a visiting scientist in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2010 to 2011. He served as the Electronic Section Editor of the SCI indexed Journal, Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers from 2007 to 2012. Since 2013, he serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE Access Journal. He received the 2018 Outstanding Research Award from NSTC, and 2019 MOC Contribution Award from the Microoptics Group of Japanese Society of Applied Physics.
His research interests include semiconductor optoelectronic components, photonic integrated circuits, nanophotonics, and optical networking technologies. He has published more than 250 referred papers in international journals and conferences and holds >30 patents. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of Taiwan Photonics Society.