Daeyeol Lee received his undergraduate degree in economics from Seoul National University in South Korea, and his doctoral degree in neuroscience from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. He has held faculty appointments at Wake Forest University, University of Rochester, and Yale University, before joining the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at the Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in 2019. His research focuses on the brain mechanisms of decision making and high-level cognition.