Kangwook Lee Associate Professor Department Electrical & Computer Engineering Contact M1002G, Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Dr Madison, WI p: (608) 265-4841 e: kangwook.lee@wisc.edu Professor Kangwook Lee - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UW–Madison Close Video Education PhD 2016, Univ. of California-BerkeleyMS 2012, Univ. of California-BerkeleyBS 2010, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Research interests machine learningdeep learninginformation theorycoding Awards 2024 Amazon, Amazon Research Awards (Fall 2023)2024 National Science Foundation, NSF CAREER Award2023 MLSys Workshop on Federated Learning Systems, Best Paper Award2022 Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Grainger Faculty Scholarship Award2022 The Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA), Young Investigator Grants Award2021 IEEE, Most cited paper published in IEEE Transactions of Info. Theory between 2016 and 20202020 IEEE, IEEE Joint Communications Society/Information Theory Society Paper Award2018 Brain Korea 21 , Research Professor Fellowship2017 GCORE , GCORE Post-doctoral Fellowship2016 Brain Korea 21, Post-doctoral Fellowship2016 University of California-Berkeley, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award2010 KFAS , PhD Fellowship (Full funding for five years)2010 KAIST, Graduated with the highest GPA2009 KOFAC, Korea Talent Award (Presidential Award) Courses COMP SCI 682 - Senior Honors Thesis (Spring 2025)COMP SCI 799 - Master's Research (Spring 2025)COMP SCI 990 - Dissertation (Spring 2025)E C E 570 - Ethics of Data for Engineers (Spring 2025)E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)I SY E 570 - Ethics of Data for Engineers (Spring 2025)COMP SCI 539 - Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (Fall 2024)COMP SCI 681 - Senior Honors Thesis (Fall 2024)COMP SCI 702 - Graduate Cooperative Education (Fall 2024)COMP SCI 799 - Master's Research (Fall 2024)COMP SCI 990 - Dissertation (Fall 2024)E C E 539 - Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (Fall 2024)E C E 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2024)E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)M E 539 - Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (Fall 2024)COMP SCI 702 - Graduate Cooperative Education (Summer 2024)COMP SCI 990 - Dissertation (Summer 2024)E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)COMP SCI 699 - Directed Study (Spring 2024)COMP SCI 799 - Master's Research (Spring 2024)COMP SCI 899 - Pre-Dissertator Research (Spring 2024)E C E 570 - Ethics of Data for Engineers (Spring 2024)E C E 790 - Master's Research (Spring 2024)E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)I SY E 570 - Ethics of Data for Engineers (Spring 2024)COMP SCI 699 - Directed Study (Fall 2023)COMP SCI 702 - Graduate Cooperative Education (Fall 2023)COMP SCI 799 - Master's Research (Fall 2023)COMP SCI 899 - Pre-Dissertator Research (Fall 2023)E C E 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2023)E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)COMP SCI 702 - Graduate Cooperative Education (Summer 2023)COMP SCI 799 - Master's Research (Summer 2023)COMP SCI 899 - Pre-Dissertator Research (Summer 2023)E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2023)E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Summer 2023)