Kwonsang Lee
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Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, 2025 – Present
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, 2021 – 2025
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, 2020 – 2021
  • Research Associate, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2019 – 2020
    • Mentor: Francesca Dominici
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2017 – 2019
    • Mentor: Francesca Dominici

Education

  • Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (Statistics emphasis), University of Pennsylvania, 2012 – 2017
    • Advisor: Dylan S. Small
  • M.A. in Statistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2015 – 2016
  • B.S. in Mathematics, B.A. in Economics, Seoul National University, 2006 – 2010

Awards and Honors

  • 34th Outstanding Paper Award (2024)
    Awarded by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies for the paper “A nonparametric binomial likelihood approach for causal inference in instrumental variable models.”

  • Outstanding Teaching Award (2022)
    Awarded by College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University for excellence in teaching.

  • Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE) Young Investigator Award (2018)
    Awarded by the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics in Epidemiology for the paper “A powerful approach to the study of moderate effect modification in observational studies.”

  • Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship Award (2016–2017)
    Awarded by the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, University of Pennsylvania, for pursuing research in decision making under risk and uncertainty.

  • Benjamin Franklin Fellowship (2012–2017)
    Awarded by the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.

  • GAPSA Research Travel Grant Award (Summer 2015)
    Awarded by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA), University of Pennsylvania.

  • Department Good Teaching Award (Spring 2024)
    Awarded by Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania for excellence in teaching.

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