HANSOL LEE

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Hello! I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Education Data Science at Stanford University, advised by Professor Ben Domingue. I study the gap between what algorithmic systems are designed to do and how they actually operate in practice.

My work spans human-AI decision-making, algorithmic fairness, and measurement. I approach these questions from two sides: (1) the deployment side, examining how algorithmic tools reshape human decision-making in practice; and (2) the measurement side, asking whether the models underlying these systems rest on valid empirical foundations. I use methods spanning machine learning, causal inference, and psychometrics.

Before Stanford, I studied Computer Science at Cornell University, advised by Professors Rene Kizilcec and Thorsten Joachims. I am a recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship and co-founder of Learnest, a nonprofit to promote responsible AI in education.

News

May 04, 2026 Received a $1,000 Psychometric Society Travel Award to attend IMPS 2026. Thank you for the support!
Apr 30, 2026 Paper accepted at ICML 2026:
  • Noise Tectonics: Measuring the Stability of AI Benchmark Ecosystems
Apr 29, 2026 Invited talk at NYU Steinhardt’s PRIISM applied statistics seminar.
Apr 23, 2026 Awarded a $5,000 Dissertation Support Grant from Stanford Graduate School of Education. Thank you to GSE for the support!
Apr 16, 2026 Paper accepted at ACM FAccT 2026:
  • Does Algorithmic Uncertainty Sway Human Experts? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Selective College Admissions (preprint)
Apr 12, 2026 Two papers accepted at ACM Learning @ Scale 2026:
  • The “Astonishing Regularity” Revisited: Sensitivity of Learning-Rate Estimates to Practice-Sequence Length (preprint)
  • A Large-Scale Observational Study on Obtaining Lightweight, Randomized Weekly Student Feedback (preprint)
Mar 29, 2026 Five abstracts accepted at IMPS 2026.
Feb 05, 2026 Launched my personal website! :)
Jan 29, 2026 Presented a poster at Responsible Assessment in the AI Era, hosted by Stanford Accelerator for Learning and ETS (paper).