Faculty Profiles

Dr. Christine Ruey Shan Lee

PhD in Mathematics

Michigan State University, 2015

BS in Mathematics

California Inst of Technology, 2007

Lee, Christine Ruey Shan. Surfaces and the geometry and topology of quantum link invariants, National Science Foundation, Federal, $109708. (Funded: September 2023). Grant.
Lee, Christine Ruey Shan (Principal). IPAM-UCLA senior fellowship, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Institutional (Higher Ed), $8900. (Funded: September 2026 - December 2026). Grant.
Lee, Christine Ruey Shan. CAREER: COLORED LINK HOMOLOGIES AND THE GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY OF SURFACES IN LOW-DIMENSIONS, National Science Foundation, Federal, $466294. (Funded: September 2025 - September 2030). Grant.
Lee, Christine Ruey Shan, Caprau, Carmen, Gonzalez, Nicolle, Sazdanovic, Radmila, Zhang, Melissa. Topological Applications of Khovanov Homology, American Institute of Mathematics, American Institute of Mathematics. (Funded: 2021 - 2023). Grant.

Kalfagianni, E., & Lee, C. R. S. (2023). Jones diameter and crossing number of knots. Advances in Mathematics, 417, N/A. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2023.108937
Garoufalidis, S., Lee, C. R. S., & van der Veen, R. (2020). The Slope Conjecture for Montesinos knots. International Journal of Mathematics. https://doi.org/DOI:%2010.1142/S0129167X20500561
Lee, C. R. S. (2025). Computing Khovanov homology via categorified Jones-Wenzl projectors. Contemporary Mathematics Issue on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, 827, 32--48.
Lee, C. R. S. (2024). Stable Khovanov homology and volume. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2219--2234.
Lee, C. R. S. (2022). Jones slopes and coarse volume of near-alternating links. Communications in Analysis and Geometry, 30(4), 891–948.

Award / Honor Recipient: Research Excellence, TXST math department. November 2025 - December 2025
Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Excellence. December 2024
Award / Honor Recipient: Research Excellence. December 8, 2023