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Jae-Ho Lee, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
University of North Florida
1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224

Office: Building 14, Room 2727
Email: jaeho.lee (at) unf (dot) edu

I am a mathematician working in algebraic combinatorics, with research on Q-polynomial distance-regular graphs, the double affine Hecke algebra, and related structures in representation theory and special functions. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2014 (advisor: Paul Terwilliger), then held a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tohoku University, Japan (host: Hajime Tanaka). I spent the following year as an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before joining the University of North Florida, where I am now a tenured Associate Professor. 

Recent highlights:

• New paper: The nucleus of the Grassmann graph Jq(N,D) (with J. Park and I. Seong), Discrete Math. 350 (2027), no 1, Paper No. 115386, 20 pp.

• New paper: Every Q-polynomial distance-regular graph is sharp over ℝ (with B. Fernandez and J. Park), J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 224 (2026), Paper No. 106223, 36 pp.

• Gave a talk at the 18th Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications (OPSFA-18), Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, August 2026 

• Upcoming talk: UW-Madison Combinatorics Seminar, November 2026

• Director, 2026 UNF Math Competition (Grades 3–12)