Kwonsang Lee

Associate Professor

Department of Statistics
Seoul National University

kwonsanglee (at) snu (dot) ac (dot) kr

I am an Associate Professor of Statistics at Seoul National University, where I lead the SNU Causal Inference Lab.

My research develops design- and algorithm-centric methods for causal inference, with a focus on matching, weighting, diagnostics, and randomization-based inference.

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From July 2025, I will be a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.

Google Scholar CV

Education

• 2017–2020

  Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  advised by Francesca Dominici

• 2012–2017

  Ph.D., Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (AMCS), University of Pennsylvania

  advised by Dylan Small

• 2015–2016

  M.A., Statistics, University of Pennsylvania

• 2006–2010

  B.S., Mathematics and Economics, Seoul National University

Research Interests

Matching and Design

high-dimensional matching, matching with quantum computing, many-to-many

Inference

heterogeneous effect, causal interaction, sensitivity analysis

Overlap & Robustness

diagnostics, quantifying overlap

Complex Structure

multiple treatments, time-series data, mediation

News

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• Jan 29

  Geondo presented at the Spring 2026 seminar of the Center for Causal Inference (CCI) at the University of Pennsylvania, on joint work with Juyeon, Quantifying Practical Overlap in Causal Inference via Integrated KL Projections.

• Jan 14

  Geondo, Zion, and Juyeon are Visiting Scholars at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania.

• Dec 20

  Hajoung has begun her Visiting Scholar appointment at the Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania.