Name Yuk-Wing Lee Died 1989 | Notable students George Zames | |
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Books Statistical Theory of Communication Similar People Norbert Wiener, George Zames, Edward Colin Cherry | ||
Yuk-Wing Lee (April 14, 1904 – November 8, 1989) was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known for adapting and popularizing the pioneering work of Norbert Wiener and for his own research on statistical communication theory.
Lee was born in Macao and called “Yuwing” or “YW” by his friends. He was a longtime collaborator of Wiener. Lee was part of a cohort of students sponsored by the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program. Lee's brother would be part of a later cohort of the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program. After obtaining his doctorate at MIT, he returned to China and taught at Tsinghua University. He invited Wiener there in 1935-1937. In 1946 he came back to MIT as a Visiting Professor and initiated his research on statistical communication theory. He then stayed at MIT for 30 years. John Costas, Harry L. Van Trees, Irwin Jacobs and Amar Bose were his students at MIT. He died in San Mateo, California.