In 1992, Lee was invited by Chi-Fu Den, the president of In order to adapt to the trend of global financial development,
NCTU, and Tsang-Hai Kuo, the dean of the College of Science, Lee participated in the establishment of the Institute of Finance
to return to Taiwan and take up the post of chair of the newly at NCTU in 2002 and took on the responsibility of head of the
established Institute of Statistics. Until stepping down from this institute for two years. During his tenure in charge, he was elected
post in 1999, he persuaded many top statistical researchers who University Chair Professor of NCTU in recognition of his dedica-
had graduated from well-known schools to return to Taiwan tion and accomplishments, as well as his reputation within aca-
and teach. He also encouraged the now common practice of demic circles.
research and acquiring software, as well as hardware. His efforts Lee had published many papers, and his research subjects
enabled the Institute of Statistics at NCTU to quickly rise included many fields in statistics, including multivariate analysis,
to the level of other established institutes of statistics, name- time series analysis, growth curves, Bayesian inference, and classi-
ly those of National Tsing-Hua University and National fication and pattern recognition. He also published in other areas,
Central University. such as portfolio management and option evaluation, with particu-
In August 1995, Lee was the first academic in Taiwan to lar application to finance.
receive the ASA Fellow honor from the American Statistical Lee conducted his academic studies conscientiously. Since his
Association. Lee had already been selected as a member of the return to Taiwan, he has supervised numerous exceptional master’s
International Statistical Institute in 1990 and elected as the and PhD graduates. He has four PhD graduates who are current-
president of the International Chinese Statistical Association in ly teaching in well-known universities and colleges. His master’s
1992. He was invited on multiple occasions to make speech- graduates have also held pivotal positions in numerous areas of
es around the world in many renowned schools, including business and academia. His pupils owe much to him, and have the
Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and [the] University of Minnesota capability to build on his success and to further glorify what Lee
in the United States; Oxford and [the] University of London in has started.
England; Hitotsubashi University and Kobe University in Japan; Throughout his life, Lee lived plainly and simply, and his pas-
[the] University of British Columbia in Canada; and INSEAD sion for learning never diminished. He, now and always, will be a
in France, to name a few. great role model for scholars to admire and learn from. ■
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