Anne Lee

About Anne Lee

ANNE Y. LEE is a Bell Labs Fellow currently working as a 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 utilizing VoLTE, VoWiFi, fixed voip, and RCS services. IMS has gone cloud-native and adoption continues around the globe with 5G.  IMS is now evolving to support end-user features that go beyond voice and basic connectivity with the integration of WebRTC into IMS Data Channel, revolutionizing 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.  

For more information check out Anne’s LinkedIn Profile.