Byeong Gi Lee received the B.S. and M.E. degrees in 1974 and 1978, respectively, from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, and Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea, both in electronics engineering. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1982 from the University of California, Los Angeles, in electrical engineering. He was with Electronics Engineering Department of ROK Naval Academy as an Instructor and Naval Officer in active service from 1974 to 1979. He worked for Granger Associates, Santa Clara, CA, from 1982 to 1984 as a Senior Engineer responsible for applications of digital signal processing to digital transmission, and for AT&T Bell Laboratories, North Andover, MA, from 1984 to 1986 as a Member of Technical Staff responsible for optical transmission system development along with related standard works.

He joined the faculty of School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University in 1986, where he is a Professor. He is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Communications and Networks, the past Editor of the IEEE Global Communications Newsletter, and a past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He is the Director for Membership Programs Development, the past Director of Asia Pacific Region, and a Member-at-Large of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). He is the Chair of the APCC (Asia Pacific Conference on Communications) Steering Committee, and was the Chair of the ABEEK (Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea) Founding Committee. His current fields of interest include signal processing, communication systems, and integrated telecommunication networks. He is a coauthor of Broadband Telecommunication Technology, 2nd ed., (Artech House, 1996) and Scrambling Techniques for Digital Transmission (Springer Verlag, 1994). He holds six U.S. patents with two more patents pending.

Dr. Lee received the 1984 Myril B. Reed Best Paper Award from the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems and Exceptional Contribution Awards from AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is a member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea, a member of Board of Governors of IEEE ComSoc, and a member of Sigma Xi.