ANNE Y. LEE is a Bell Labs Fellow currently working as CTO, AI Research Lab – Bell Labs Solutions Research. Previously, she served as Senior Technology Advisor in the Technology Leadership Office on Technology Strategy and Architecture supporting the CSTO and CEO by analyzing the evolution of key technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence) and the overall network architecture to identify new directions for the industry and the impact and requirements on the company’s portfolio.
Anne has over 35 years of experience at Nokia (AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, and Nokia).
She was the IMS technical team leader for Lucent Technologies working closely with the 3GPP standards
team from the beginning – circa 1999 – to pioneer the multi-access, globally interoperable IP
communications system deployed worldwide. Today there are over six billion IMS devices offering
VoLTE, VoWiFi, fixed voip, and RCS services. IMS has gone cloud-native and adoption continues around
the globe with 5G evolving to end-user features going beyond voice and connectivity with the
integration of WebRTC into IMS Data Channel to revolutionize the phone call and the business model.
Anne is a technologist at heart and an electrical engineer and computer scientist by training. She
became a Bell Labs Fellow in 2005 and has multiple patents and publications. She is a keynote and TEDx
industry speaker.
Bell Labs Fellow is the highest honor bestowed on individuals for lifetime technical achievements.
Anne’s LinkedIn is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-lee-81025b5/
