Lee studied astronomy and physics at the University of Toronto, with a minor in mathematics. She graduated with high distinction in 2011, under the mentorship of Norman Murray, and was granted a master's degree there in 2012. Next, she went to the University of California, Berkeley for continued graduate study in astrophysics. She earned a second master's degree in 2014 and completed her Ph.D. in 2017. Her doctoral dissertation, The Late-Time Formation and Dynamical Signatures of Small Planets, was supervised by Eugene Chiang.[1]
After postdoctoral research as a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, Lee became an assistant professor of physics at McGill University in 2019.[1]