IEEE VTS Board of Governors President Jae Hong Lee received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University (SNU), Korea and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has worked with AT&T Bell Laboratories in Whippany, New Jersey, currently President Lee is a professor working with SNU. He has served as Chairman of the EECS Department and Director of the Institute of New Media and Communications of SNU.

His main research activities have been in the physical layer of wireless communications including MIMO, OFDM and cooperative diversity. He was also involved in a Korean grand design project for ITS as it's principal investigator in communication systems. He holds more than twenty patents and published research papers which have been cited more than 1,700 times total. One of his papers has been cited over 250 times according to Google Scholars. His Communications and Coding Theory Laboratory was designated as a National Research Laboratory by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea in 2001. He was a president of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea, the largest Korean academic society as well as the longest running. He was also elected to be a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea.

President Lee served as the general chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2003-Spring in Jeju. He created the IEEE Asia Pacific Wireless Communications Symposium (APWCS) as the first chairman of its steering board in 2004, technically a VTS co-sponsored event. Jae Hong Lee has been an elected member of the Board of Governors since 2006 and will be serving as President until his term expires at the conclusion of 2012.