Yong Suk Lee

Associate Professor of Technology, Economy, and Global Affairs

Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame

Technology Ethics Program Chair, Institute for Ethics and the Common Good

My research examines the economic and societal consequences of technological change, and the governance and policy responses to these transformations.

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Research Themes

Labor Market Impacts

Measuring and understanding how AI and robotics reshape employment, wages, and the structure of work — from occupational exposure scores and CPS analysis to facility-level studies of robot adoption.

Studying how workers, managers, and organizations actually engage with AI — the gap between capability and adoption, how AI changes decision-making, and what happens when humans and algorithms collaborate.

Beliefs, Policy & Governance

Investigating how people's beliefs about technology shape behavior and policy preferences — and developing evidence-based frameworks for AI governance, workforce policy, and responsible innovation.

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Examining how institutions, education, and policy shape entrepreneurial activity and innovation — from university programs and government-backed lending to the geography of small business growth.

Recent Work

2025

Do Multimodal Large Language Models Understand Welding? · with N. Chawla, G. Khvatskii, C. Angst, M. Gibbs, R. Landers · Information Fusion

2025

Robots and Labor in Nursing Homes · with K. Eggleston, T. Iizuka · Labour Economics

2025

US-China Tech Decoupling Increases Willingness to Share Personal Data in China · with B. Larsen, J. Wu · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

2025

University Education Reform and Entrepreneurship Among Alumni · with C. Eesley, X. Tian, D. Yang · Management and Organization Review

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Yong Suk Lee

Research Themes

Labor Market Impacts

Human–AI Interaction

Beliefs, Policy & Governance

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Recent Work