Seungmin Yoo

Welcome to my personal website! I am a PhD candidate in Strategy & Innovation at Boston University, Questrom School of Business. I am an NBER Dissertation Fellow (2026–2027).

I examine how high-skilled migrants shape innovation and entrepreneurship. My dissertation focuses on two underexplored phases of the skilled migration lifecycle: student immigration and return migration. My job market paper examines how prior U.S. professional exposure affects returning migrants' propensity to found startups in their home countries. 

My research has received a Will Mitchell SRF Dissertation Grant, and I am also a recipient of the NBER Dissertation Fellowship on the Fiscal and Economic Effects of Innovation and Productivity Policies, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

I am on the 2026–2027 academic job market.

Email: smyoo@bu.edu