Nigel and Laifong Lee's Homepage

Welcome to Nigel and Laifong Lee's Homepage

Thanks for visiting. Below you can find out a little about our family:
Nigel Lee, Laifong Lee, and Caleb Lee

Facts about Nigel:

Born October 10, 1968 in New York City
Moved to Teaneck, NJ in 1970, then to Barrington, RI in 1976
Graduated from Barrington High School in 1986 (co-valedictorian)
Graduated from Brown University in 1990 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Graduated from Princeton University in 1995 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering; studied under advisor Dr. Stuart Schwartz; thesis was titled "Linear Time-Frequency Representations for Transient Signal Detection"
Worked at Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, RI from December 1994 to July 1998 in what is now the Torpedo Systems Technology Department
Worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, MA from September 1998 to May 2007 in the Advanced Sensor Techniques Group (Group 103)
Worked at EuclidIQ, a video compression company in Concord, MA, from June 2007 to February 2019. Consulted part-time at Corista, a medical image processing company in Concord, MA, from December 2017 to February 2019.
Worked at STR in Woburn, MA from March 2019 to October, 2021.
Currently working at Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA.

Facts about Laifong:

Born December 31, 1970 in Penang, Malaysia
Graduated from MGS High School in Penang in 1987
Graduated from Mills College in Oakland, CA in 1992 with a B.S. in Biology
Graduated from Princeton University in 2000 with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology; studied under advisors Dr. James Broach at Princeton and Dr. David Pellman at Harvard; thesis was titled "A Molecular Mechanism for Spindle Positioning in the Budding Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae"
Worked at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA as a research technician in the Pellman Lab (directed by Dr. David Pellman) from July 1996 to August 2000
Worked at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA as a postdoctoral fellow under the direction of Dr. Sandra Dabora from September 2002 to August 2006
Worked as a scientific editor for the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) from 2007 to 2012.
Currently volunteering for Wycliffe Bible Translators.

Facts about Nigel and Laifong:

We met at Princeton as graduate students in September 1992
We got to know each other through our involvement with the Princeton chapter of Chi Alpha (a Christian student organization affiliated with the Assemblies of God), under the direction of Pastor Pete Hartwig; we also attended the same church in Princeton, Nassau Christian Center (NCC)
We started dating on November 6, 1994
We had a long-distance relationship (Nigel in RI, Laifong still at Princeton) from December 1994 to June 1996
We became engaged on December 2, 1995
We got married on June 8, 1996 at NCC; Pastor Pete officiated
Our first home (a rented apartment) was in Norton, MA, from June 1996 to July 1998

While in Norton, we both had long commutes: Nigel, 75 minutes to Newport, RI; Laifong, 90 minutes (commuter train, bus, walk) into Boston
Our church during our time in Norton was Taunton Assembly of God in Taunton, MA, formerly pastored by Rev. Stephen Weber. To receive a daily email devotional by Pastor Weber, visit his website, Daily Encouragement

We moved to another apartment in Brookline, MA from August 1998 to May 2001; our commutes got much shorter (Nigel, 35 minutes to Lexington, MA; Laifong, 30 minutes by bus into Boston)
We bought our first home, a townhouse condominium, in Chestnut Hill, MA in May 2001; this is where we still live
On March 3, 2002, Laifong gave birth to our son, Caleb James Lee; Caleb was 5 pounds, 11 ounces at birth. Click here to see some pictures of Caleb (and us).
From 1998-2009, we attended an Assemblies of God church in Boston, Boston Harbor Community Church, pastored by Rev. Nick Fatato until 2005 and then by Rev. David Wenrich
From 2009 to 2016. we attended Highrock Church in Arlington, MA
We currently attend Mount Hope Christian Church in Belmont, MA

Tidbits about Nigel and Laifong:

We are Christians, and our faith in Jesus Christ is a very important to us. We occasionally write a devotional intended for scientists at the Daily Encouragement site. To see another example of our writing, read Nigel's review of The Passion of the Christ.
We both enjoy contemporary Christian music; Nigel's favorite artist is Twila Paris; Laifong's favorites are Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin
Nigel loves to play and watch sports:

Favorite sports to play are basketball and volleyball
Favorite sports to watch are basketball, football, boxing, baseball, and tennis
Favorite teams are the Philadelphia 76ers, Eagles, and Phillies; North Carolina Tar Heels college basketball; Penn State Nittany Lions college football
Least favorite teams are the Boston Celtics, Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, and New York Yankees; developed an affinity over the years to teams that would defeat these teams (including the Pistons, Lakers, 49ers, and Giants)
All-time favorite athletes are Julius Erving, Andrew Toney, Hersey Hawkins, Andre Iguodala, Vinnie Johnson, Wilbert Montgomery, Reggie White, Randall Cunningham, Eric Allen, Charlie Garner, Brian Dawkins, Fletcher Cox, Carson Wentz, Steve Carlton, Mike Schmidt, Curt Schilling, Ryan Madson, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, Ryan Howard, Carl Yastrzemski, Andy Van Slyke, Evander Holyfield, Roy Jones Jr., Manny Pacquiao, Jimmy Connors, Michael Chang, Pete Sampras, Novak Djokovic, Martina Hingis, and Maria Sharapova
Avid collector of sports cards

Favorite board game is also sports-related, a simulation game called Strat-O-Matic

Nigel's favorites:

Favorite TV shows: Star Trek (any type, though the best was TOS and the worst was Voyager) and Friends
Favorite animal: the orangutan (orang-utan is a Malaysian word that is literally translated jungle-man!)
Favorite domestic animal: cats (we used to have a short-haired tabby named Samson, but we had to give Samson to Nigel's parents because Caleb is allergic to cats, unfortunately)
Favorite class of animals: reptiles! Gatorland Park in Orlando, FL was the highlight of our honeymoon, and Arena (with the reptilian gorn as Capt. Kirk's adversary) is a beloved Star Trek episode
Favorite board games (besides Strat-O-Matic): chess and Stratego

To contact us via email, click here. To contact Nigel about work, click here.

This page last updated February 21, 2022