Sanghack Lee
Associate Professor
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolSanghack Lee is an Associate Professor and researcher with 11 years of experience bridging causal inference and sequential decision-making, currently based in Seoul and formerly an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University. He earned his Ph.D. from Penn State under Vasant Honavar and advanced causal discovery methods for relational domains during his doctoral work. His research focuses on causal effect identifiability and transportability, developing theory and methods to apply causality in dynamic, networked, and sequential settings. Sanghack has transitioned smoothly between academia and industry, earlier building enterprise search engines as a senior software engineer, which gives him practical systems perspective on deploying research. He has held faculty positions at Seoul National University since 2021 and brings a global academic footprint including postdoctoral work at Purdue. Colleagues describe him as a theoretically rigorous yet application-minded scientist who consistently pushes causal methods toward real-world decision problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Sogang UniversityPhD, transferred to Penn State University, Computer Science, PhD, transferred to Penn State University, Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Sciences and Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University
English, Korean
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
graph-algorithms10
python10
network-analysis10
graph-analysis10
graph-visualization10
complex-networks10
graph-theory10
nlp7
nltk7
kernel7
entropy6
data-analysis6
sorting6
dictionary6
command-prompt6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sanghack81/SCMMAB-NIPS2018
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 2 years 11 months
sanghack81/sanghack81.github.io
Jul 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 PRs, 241 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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