[3] Tech executive Joel S. Birnbaum has called her "one of the top instruction-set architects in the world".
[2] Lee graduated from Cornell University's College Scholar Program in 1973.
[1] Much of her work since moving to Princeton has concerned both the integration of pervasive security mechanisms into computer architecture, and the hardware support for bit manipulation based cryptographic primitives.
[5] In 2001 Lee was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for pioneering multimedia instructions in general-purpose processor architecture and innovations in the design and implementation of the instruction set architecture of RISC processors.
[4] She was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.