Suhyeon Lee
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) - Seoul, South Korea 2026 - 2029 (exp.)
Ph.D. in Management Engineering, Advisor: Prof. Donghyuk Shin - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) - Seoul, South Korea Feb. 2026
M.S. in Management Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, United States Dec. 2024 - Jul. 2025
Visiting Student (AI Intensive Program) - Hankuk University of Foreign Studies - Seoul, Korea Feb. 2024
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Computer and Electronic Systems Engineering - Eastern New Mexico University - Portales, United States Jan. 2022 - Jun. 2022
Exchange Student
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Suhyeon Lee
Ph.D. Student @KAIST
I'm a Ph.D. student in Management Engineering at KAIST, advised by Prof. Donghyuk Shin. I study AI-mediated markets: what changes when AI systems come to sit between people and the choices they make. I look at this from three sides, asking whether marketing still works once an agent does the buying, whether platform rules still govern as intended once AI generates and filters content, and how these systems should be built to work with people in the first place. Before starting my Ph.D., I was a visiting student at Carnegie Mellon University's AI Intensive Program.
Education
Research Interests
Substantive Areas: AI Agents and Digital Markets, Human-AI Decision Making, AI Governance and Digital Platforms
Methodological Areas: Causal Inference, Experiments, LLM-based Behavioral Simulation
Recent News!
September 2026
Two papers accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026
"LLM Pedagogical Behavior in AI Tutoring Interactions" and "How You Ask Shapes What You Get"
will both appear in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026.
September 2026
Agentic commerce paper accepted at ICIS 2026 and INFORMS CIST 2026
"When the Buyer Is a Machine" will be presented in Lisbon in December and in San Francisco
at the end of October.
March 2026
Started the Ph.D. program at KAIST
Continuing in the AI & Business Analytics Lab under Prof. Donghyuk Shin.
November 2025
PlaceSim published at CIKM 2025
"PlaceSim: An LLM-based Interactive Platform for Human Behavior Simulation in Physical
Facilities" appeared at CIKM 2025 in Seoul.