Yong Suk Lee

Assistant Professor of Technology, Economy and Global Affairs

Keough School of Global Affairs

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4143 Jenkins And Nanovic Halls
Notre Dame, IN 46556
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ylee27@nd.edu

Assistant Professor of Technology, Economy and Global Affairs

  • Technology and work
  • Labor economics
  • Urban economics
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) and the implications for labor and organizations 
  • AI ethics and regulatory issues
  • AI and tech competition and nationalism; global inequality

 

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Safety + Health Magazine

AI tools show promise in improving manufacturing worker safety: study

“As AI adoption in industrial contexts grows, practitioners will need to balance the trade-offs between using complex, expensive general-purpose models and opting for fine-tuned models that better meet industry needs,” study co-author Yong Suk Lee, a professor of technology, economy and global affairs at Notre Dame, said in a press release.

Trump’s economists should study what happened in Japan and South Korea

OPINION: Yong Suk Lee is an associate professor at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where he is the director of the Future of Labor Lab.

Trump wants to create manufacturing jobs. His tech allies invest in robots to do the work.

Yong Suk Lee, a professor of economics and technology at the University of Notre Dame, described the views on automation among Trump’s tech allies and some of his trade advisers as “opposed.”

McKnight's Long-Term Care News

These 3 robots increased retention, changed hiring in nursing homes

“Our research focused on Japan because it is a super-aging society that provides a good example of what the future could entail elsewhere — a declining population, a growing share of senior citizens and a declining share of working-age people,” noted University of Notre Dame associate professor of technology, economy and global affairs Yong Suk Lee. “We need to be ready for this new reality.”

Robots in nursing homes boost employee retention, enhance patient care

Yong Suk Lee, associate professor of technology, economy and global affairs at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs, was the lead author for the study, published in Labour Economics.

Science Magazine

Integration of Robots in Nursing Homes Boosts Employee Retention and Enhances Patient Care

In an insightful investigation into the integration of robotics within the nursing care sector, recent research led by Yong Suk Lee, an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, reveals a promising paradigm shift in how these technologies influence healthcare both for workers and patients.

Rinnovabili | Italian

Artificial Intelligence will map cities to evaluate urban degradation

Research by the University of Notre Dame and Stanford used Artificial Intelligence to precisely map three model cities, analyzing urban decay and identifying solutions to increase the well-being of citizens. The possible solution to the problem may have been found by Yong Suk Lee, assistant professor of technology, economics and global affairs at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, and Andrea Vallebueno of Stanford University.

Science Magazine

AI can alert urban planners and policymakers to cities’ decay

However, measuring and tracking the quality of an urban environment, its evolution and its spatial disparities is difficult due to the amount of on-the-ground data needed to capture these patterns. To address the issue, Yong Suk Lee, assistant professor of technology, economy and global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, and Andrea Vallebueno from Stanford University used machine learning to develop a scalable method to measure urban decay at a spatially granular level over time.

AI drive-thrus may be good for business. But not for the rest of us

The adoption of new technology could mean fewer jobs or part-time work for employees, said Yong Suk Lee, assistant professor of technology, economy and global affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where he focuses on AI’s impact on labor.

Robotics & Automation News

Will a robot take my job? Notre Dame researcher says this view is overly pessimistic

With the impact of industrial robots on the US labor markets in the past two decades, and an ever-increasing presence of machine-driven technology (such as artificial intelligence and ChatGPT), many employees have feared that one day robots will take their jobs. Not necessarily so, according to research recently published by Yong Suk Lee, an assistant professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.

Will a robot take my job? Researcher says this view is overly pessimistic

With the impact of industrial robots on the U.S. labor markets in the past two decades, and an ever-increasing presence of machine-driven technology (such as artificial intelligence and ChatGPT), many employees have feared that one day robots will take their jobs. Not necessarily so, according to research recently published by Yong Suk Lee, an assistant professor in the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.