Meng Lee is currently a Technical Contributor at Hewlett-Packard Research Labs. While originally a compiler engineer, Lee joined Alexander Stepanov to work on generic algorithms in 1992. She co-authored and co-developed with Stepanov the 1995 Hewlett-Packard technical report titled The Standard Template Library that led to the C++ Standard Template Library.
Lee co-authored the definitive book The C++ Standard Template Library with P.J. Plauger, Alexander Stepanov, and David Musser.
During the 1980s, Lee worked at Sun Microsystems.