Speaker Profile

Dr. D.J. Lee received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University and MBA degree from Shenandoah University. He is a teacher, researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur. He served in the machine vision industry for eleven years before joining Brigham Young University faculty in 2001. He is currently a professor and the director of the Robotic Vision Laboratory in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at BYU. He co-founded Smart Vision Works, Inc. in 2012 to develop AI-based smart cameras for visual inspection automation that was acquired by KPM Analytics in March 2023. He founded Authentiface, Inc. in July 2023 to commercialize his Concurrent 2-factor Facial Motion Authentication technology developed at BYU. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, high-performance visual computing, robotic vision, and visual inspection automation.