Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 2024
  • M.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 2019
  • B.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 2018
Professional Affiliations
  • American Society of Biomechanics
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • Alpha Pi Mu Honor Society
  • Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association

Dr. Lee specializes in slips, trips, and falls; balance recovery; fall prevention; and human movement analysis. His work combines biomechanics, physical ergonomics, and statistical modeling to evaluate movement patterns, identify mechanisms of injury, and quantify factors associated with fall risk and recovery performance. His expertise spans laboratory-based investigations, real-world movement assessment, and wearable sensor technologies.

A central focus of Dr. Lee's research has been understanding how individuals respond to and recover from trips and other losses of balance. He has studied trip recovery biomechanics in both controlled laboratory environments and real-world settings, developed novel approaches for quantifying recovery performance, and investigated interventions designed to improve balance recovery among community-dwelling older adults. His work has contributed to the understanding of fall prevention, reactive balance control, and trip-induced falls.

Dr. Lee also has specialized expertise in wearable sensing and inertial measurement units (IMUs). His research includes validating IMUs for measuring trunk kinematics during overground trips, evaluating wearable sensor applications for balance and recovery assessments, and comparing IMU-derived measures with laboratory motion-capture systems. He has leveraged wearable technologies to characterize human movement both in controlled experiments and in real-world environments where traditional laboratory methods are not feasible.

Before joining Exponent, Dr. Lee served as a Principal Data Scientist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Musculoskeletal Education and Research Center at Carilion Clinic, where he supported orthopaedic research through study design, statistical analysis, and interpretation of patient-reported and performance-based outcomes. He completed his doctoral and postdoctoral training in occupational ergonomics and biomechanics at Virginia Tech, where his dissertation focused on non-treadmill trip training, inertial measurement unit validation, and real-world tripping kinematics.