Seojeong Jay Lee

Associate Professor Seojeong Jay Lee is a faculty member at the UNSW Business School, specializing in Econometrics and Statistical Methods. Joining the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2012 after completing a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they focus on developing robust statistical tools for economic models where traditional experimental controls are impractical.

Research Interests

• Generalized Method of Moments (GMM)
• Instrumental Variables (IV) and Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS)
• Robust inference under model misspecification
• Handling invalid/many/weak instruments in econometrics
• Heterogeneous treatment effects and clustered sampling analysis

Grants & Funding

• Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project DP210101440 (AUD 336,939), 2021-2023
• Health@Business UNSW Grant (AUD 3,500), 2020
• ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) DE170100787 (AUD 331,000), 2017-2019
• UNSW Business School Special Research Grant (AUD 17,699), 2013-2014

Awards & Recognition

• Zellner Thesis Award (Honorable Mention), American Statistical Association, 2014
• Non-Professorial Research Achievement Award, UNSW Business School, 2017

Academic Leadership Currently supervising PhD candidates Wei Tian and Fangzhou Yu in econometric theory and applications.