Contact and availability info
My policies regarding requests for tenure/promotion letters
(undergrads/masters/PhD students: to be clear, this section does not apply to you!)
- I decline requests from institutions that do not offer strong confidentiality promises, so as to feel more empowered to be candid in my letters.
- I decline requests for "third-year review"-like letters, meaning those that are for promotion but without tenure. Reason: to reserve sufficient time for letters regarding tenure cases.
- I would strongly prefer that candidates not contact me beforehand regarding my availability to write a letter, and reserve the right not to answer such queries. I understand this can put candidates in an awkward position when they are advised to make such pre-contacts by their institution, and I am sorry for that; I'm providing this public statement as protection for candidates in that case.
But I would prefer to be able to state, should/as I write such letters, that I was not contacted by the candidate or did not promise the candidate anything, so as to provide more evidence of impartiality.
Whereabouts
Office: 419 Gates Hall (Cornell)
Postal address: Cornell University, Department
of
Computer
Science, 419 Gates Hall,
Ithaca, NY 14853
Email address: llee@cs.cornell.edu, or consult any of my recent papers
Phone: 607-255-8119
Administrative assistant: Lacy Jordaens, see the CUCS staff page for contact info.
Office hours and appointments
Booking site. I generally allot 120 minutes of
office hours every full week of classes. But I use this appointment system rather than drop-in so that everyone gets individual reserved time. If you see little or no available time, that probably means other people booked the timeslots first.
Have no fear, the instructions tell you what to do if there aren't available times.
