Lee was honored for his paper entitled "A Multi-Cycle Q-Modulation Technique for Wirelessly-Powered Biomedical Implants,” which was coauthored with fellow ECE Ph.D. student Pyungwoo Yeon and ECE Associate Professor Maysam Ghovanloo, who advises both students and serves as director of the GT-Bionics Lab.

This paper presents a new method, called multi-cycle Q-modulation, which can be used in wireless power transmission (WPT) to modulate the quality factor (Q) of the receiver (Rx) coil and dynamically optimize the load impedance to maximize the power transfer efficiency (PTE) in two-coil links. This new multi-cycle Q-modulation method can be used to maintain high PTE in wirelessly powered applications that operate in dynamic environments with variable loading, such as implantable medical devices.