Jung Hee Cheon is a South Korean cryptographer and mathematician whose research interest includes computational number theory, cryptography, and information security.

[3] He is particularly known for his work on an efficient algorithm on strong DH problem.

[4][5] He was also selected as Scientist of the month by Korean government in 2018[6] and won the POSCO TJ Park Prize in 2019.

[7][8] He is a professor of Mathematical Sciences at the Seoul National University (SNU) and the director of IMDARC (the center for industrial math) in Seoul National University.

Before joining SNU, he was in ETRI, Brown University, and ICU.