Taewoo Lee is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at Seoul National University. His research broadly focuses on eliciting decision-makers’ preferences and utilities based on their past behavior and choices and optimizing service operations under uncertainty and ambiguity. He is particularly interested in applying preference elicitation and quantitative optimization techniques to improve the efficiency and stability of healthcare operations, and to design socially responsible service operations by aligning the preferences of different stakeholders and promoting fairness and access to services.

His latest research interests include:
• Theory and applications of inverse optimization and preference elicitation
• Facility location and resource allocation for addressing disparities in access to service among vulnerable and underserved populations
• Incentive and reimbursement policy design to promote equitable care/service practices
• Cancer treatment design and operations management

His work has been published in journals such as Management Science and Operations Research and has been recognized with best paper prizes from the INFORMS Healthcare Application Society, INFORMS Multi Criteria Decision Making Community, and the Canadian Operational Research Society. His research has been supported by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the US National Science Foundation. Before joining SNU, he was on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, Rice University, and the University of Houston for seven years. Dr. Lee received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Toronto.