Patrick P. C. Lee received the B.Eng. degree (first-class honors) in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2001, the M.Phil. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2008. He was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2008-2009. He is now an Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He currently heads the Applied Distributed Systems Lab and is working very closely with a group of graduate students on different projects in networks and systems. He was a collaborator with Alcatel-Lucent in developing network management solutions for 3G wireless networks in 2007-2011. His research interests are in various applied/systems topics including storage systems, distributed systems and networks, operating systems, dependability, and security.

My general research interests are in improving the dependability of storage systems, distributed systems and networks, operating systems, cloud computing. By dependability, I refer to the security, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and performance guarantees that need to be achieved to maintain the correctness and performance of operations in large-scale systems. My research approach mainly focuses on the applied/systems perspective, with an emphasis on building practical systems, evaluating systems with empirical experimentation, and deriving fundamental principles of how to design dependable systems in general.