Bang Won Lee is the President and CEO of ATLab. He was born in 1957 in Korea. He received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University in Korea in 1979, Master of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in Korea and Ph.D. of Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California in USA. In 1979, after received Bachelor¡¯s degree, he joined Samsung Electronics Co..


Bang Won Lee promoted to Executive Director of System LSI in 1995 was in charge of Consumer Media LSI business such as display, optical storage and analog consumer product. Especially he, as a business managing director, achieved the world largest market share in CD player chipset, monitor chipset and video CD chipset in 1999.


While working with Samsung he was also on the board of a venture company in Silicon Valley from 1991 to 1994, and he contributed to establish Samsung Los Angeles Design Center in 1991 and to make collaboration with STMicroelectronics in 1995. With his prior experiences in Venture Company and international collaboration, Dr. Lee founded ATLab, a new style of fabless company which provides system makers with shared R&D services in the mixed-signal system-on-chip area in 2000.


He is also contributing academic activities, too. In his Academic achievement, Dr. Lee became an IEEE senior member in 1991, contributed as an Associate Editor in Transaction on Circuits and Systems II from 1995 to 1997 and Technical Committee in Custom Integrated Circuit Conference from 1996 to 1997. And he served for Far East Technical Committee member in ISSCC from 1999 to 2007. He published more than 50 technical papers and filed more than 90 patents.