RESEARCH AREAS

Causal inference

Design and analysis of observational studies

Applications in medicine and social sciences

DEGREES

2012-2017

Ph.D. in Applied Math. (emphasis in Statistics), University of Pennsylvania
(advisors: Prof. Dylan S. Small, Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya and Paul R. Rosenbaum)

2015-2016

A.M. in Statistics, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

2006-2010

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

BIOGRAPHY

2021.09-present Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University

2020.03-2021.08 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University

2019.07-2020.02 Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

2017.06-2019.06 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Lee, K., Small, D.S., and Dominici, F. (2021). Discovering Heterogeneous Exposure Effects Using Randomization Inference in Air Pollution Studies. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 116(534), 569-580.

Fogarty, C.B., Lee, K., Kelz, R.R., and Keele, L.J. (2021). Biased Encouragements and Heterogeneous Effects in an Instrumental Variable Study of Emergency General Surgical Outcomes. Journal of the American Statistical Association, in press.

Lee, K. and Small, D. S. (2019). Estimating the malaria attributable fever fraction accounting for fever killing parasites and measurement error. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 114(525), 79-92.

Lee, K., Lorch, S. A., and Small, D. S. (2019). Sensitivity analyses for average treatment effects when outcome is censored by death in instrumental variable models. Statistics in Medicine, 38(13), 2303-2316.

Lee, K., Small, D. S. and Rosenbaum, P. R. (2018). A powerful approach to the study of moderate effect modification in observational studies. Biometrics, 74(4), 1161-1170.

Lee, K., Small, D. S., Hsu, J. Y., Silber, J. H., and Rosenbaum, P. R. (2018). Discovering effect modification in an observational study of surgical mortality at hospitals with superior nursing. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 181(2), 535-546.

AWARDS

2018

Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE) Young Investigator Award

2016-2017

Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship Award

2015

GAPSA Research Travel Grant Award

2014

Departmental Good Teaching Award

2012-2017

Benjamin Franklin Fellowship