2008: Presidential Award in Science and Education 2007: Lee Hsun Research Award, IMR, Chinese Academy of Science, China Lee Young-hee (born 28 July 1955) is a South Korean physicist.

He is a distinguished professor in physics and energy science at Sungkyunkwan University as a SKKU fellow.

He is also director of the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS).

He has been a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in the cross-field category in 2018–2023.

In 1986 he received his Ph.D. in physics at Kent State University on the subject of "Classical and Quantum Computer Simulation Studies: Molecular Dynamics of the Kerr Effect in CS2 and Green's Function MonteCarlo Calculation of the Electronic Correlation Energy in Atoms" which was advised by Michael A. Lee.