Eungjoo Lee, PhD

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Eungjoo Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona and is affiliated with the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science. He currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Body and Imaging Center at the University of Arizona. He is also a faculty member of the BIO5 Institute and the UA Cancer Center. In addition, he serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Before joining at the University of Arizona, Dr. Lee was a postdoctoral research fellow at MGH/Harvard Medical School, where he was a member of the Center for Machine Learning at Martinos. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. During his doctoral studies, he engaged in a research internship at the U.S. DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and collaborated on interdisciplinary research with Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C. 

Dr. Lee directs the Vision Systems and Intelligence (VSI) Laboratory, advancing computer vision, medical image analysis, and artificial intelligence. His group currently develops multimodal perception and decision-making algorithms for autonomous and medical systems, focusing on resource efficiency, interpretability, and cross-disciplinary applications in engineering and medicine.

Degrees

  • PhD: electrical and computer engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 2021
  • MS: electrical engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, 2015
  • BS: electrical engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, 2013

Teaching Interests

Signal and image/video processing, medical imaging, artificial intelligence and machine learning

Research Interests

Computer vision, signal and image processing, medical image analysis, artificial intelligence, embedded systems

Research Program Role
Clinical and Translational Oncology Program

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