Jae Hong Lee received BS and MS degrees from Seoul National University, Korea, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1986. He was with AT&T Bell Laboratories at Whippany, New Jersey, involved in wireless systems research. In 1992 he returned to Seoul National University as a professor and served as Director of Institute of New Media and Communications and Chairman of EECS Department. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, and a Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.

He has served for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society as Asia Pacific Chapter Development Coordinator (2004-9), Elected Member of Board of Governors (2006-now), Executive Vice President (2007-9), President (2010-11), and Distinguished Lecturer (2011-15) as well as a member of Conference Committee, Distinguished Lecturer Program Committee, and Fellow Committee. He is Founding Chair of IEEE VT Seoul Chapter (1994) and IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Seoul Chapter (1995). He was General Chair of VTC2003-Spring in Jeju. He was involved in creating the IEEE VTS Asia Pacific Wireless Communications Symposium (APWCS) in 2004 as Founding Chairman of its steering board.

He has served for the IEEE as a member of Technical Activity Board (2010-11), TAB/PSPB Products and Services Committee (2013, 2015), MGA Membership Recruitment & Recovery Committee (2015-present), and Fellow Committee (2016-present). He received Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE Seoul Section in 2003.

His research activities are in physical layer wireless communications such as MIMO, cooperative diversity, cognitive radio, energy harvesting, HetNet, and their applications to 5G wireless systems. He served as Chairman of Committee for Coordination of 3G Wireless Communication Technology Development in Korea and was Principal Investigator in Communications for ITS Grand Design Project of the Korean government. His laboratory was designated as a National Leading Research Laboratory by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea. He also was President of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea and President of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers.