CV

Curriculum vitae of Jae Hee Lee

Professional Experience

Research positions and fellowships.

2025–now

Principal Investigator

University of Hamburg

Principal investigator for the DFG projects LUMO and E4-MALM.

2020–2024

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Hamburg

2018–2020

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Cardiff University

2016–2017

Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship Holder

University of Technology Sydney

2015

Postdoctoral Research Associate

The Australian National University

Education

Degrees and research visits.

2013

Dr. rer. nat., University of Bremen

Thesis: Qualitative Reasoning about Relative Directions: Computational Complexity and Practical Algorithm

Advisors: Prof. Christian Freksa† and Prof. Sanjiang Li (UTS, Australia)

2011–2012

Visiting PhD Student

  • North Carolina State University (Jan–Mar 2012)
  • University at Buffalo (Oct–Dec 2011)
2009

Dipl.-Math., University of Bremen

Thesis: Analyse und Konstruktion von Parrondo-Paradoxa

Advisors: Prof. Ulrich Krause and Prof. Peter Maaß

Thesis Award: Fachbereichspreis Mathematik 2009

2008

Visiting MSc Student

Seoul National University (Jul–Aug 2008)

Research Grants & Funded Projects

Competitive funding and funded research projects.

2026

Priority Program, DFG — E4-MALM

Principal Investigator: Funds 1 PhD for 3 years (378,200 EUR).

2025

Research grant, DFG — LUMO

Principal Investigator: Funds 1 postdoc + 1 PhD for 3 years (732,610 EUR).

2022

Student Research Groups, University of Hamburg

Advisor; 10,000 EUR funding for explainable VQA research.

2019

Bremen-Cardiff Alliance Collaborative Fund, Cardiff University

Travel funding for spatial language understanding.

2017

UTS Blue Sky Research Scheme, University of Technology Sydney

Internal funding.

2011–2014

SFB Transregio 8 Spatial Cognition Subproject R3

Contributor.

Fellowships, Scholarships & Awards

Fellowships, scholarships, travel grants, and recognitions.

2016–2017

Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Postdoctoral fellowship for two years.

2008

DAAD Scholarship (DAAD & KOSEF)

Research visit to Seoul National University.

2026

Gold Reviewer, ICML 2026

Recognized among the top reviewers based on area-chair ratings.

2014

ECCAI travel grant

Travel support for AI research community engagement.

2009

Fachbereichspreis Mathematik, University of Bremen

Best diploma thesis award.

2001

Youth research awards

Third Prize, Jugend Forscht Bremen; Senator-Friedrich-Cordewener-Prize Bremen.

Service

Editorial work and community roles.

Editorial

  • Associate Editor, The European Journal of Artificial Intelligence (2024–now).

Organizer

  • Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning (2023, 2024, 2025).
  • SFBRTG Doctoral Colloquium (2012).
  • GIZeitgeist Conference (2012).

SPC/PC Member

IJCAI (2018–2026), ICML (2026), KI (2026), EMNLP (2023, 2024), ECAI (2023), ACL (2023), LREC-COLING (2024), AAAI (2018–2022), ICANN (2022, 2023), KI (2022), KR (2016), AI (2015).

Contact

Feel free to reach out regarding collaborations or supervision.

Address

Department of InformaticsUniversity of HamburgBundesstraße 56b20146 Hamburg

Email

ed.eeleeheaj@eaj