Email: hkwon731@gmail.com or hk4731@princeton.edu
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Greetings! I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University, where I have the privilege of working with Prof. Jianqing Fan. Prior to joining Princeton, I earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Liao. I'm currently on the 2025–2026 job market.
My research interests lie in high-dimensional models, spectral methods, factor analysis, causal inference, human preference learning, and machine learning. I am also interested in fundamental economic allocation problems, such as matching applications. In particular, my current work focuses on estimation and uncertainty quantification in (heterogeneous) human preference learning and their applications.
Publications
Inference for Low-Rank Models without Estimating the Rank (with Jungjun Choi, Yuan Liao)
Accepted at Journal of the American Statistical Association
Inference for Low-Rank Completion without Sample Splitting with Application to Treatment Effect Estimation (with Jungjun Choi, Yuan Liao)
Journal of Econometrics 240 (1)
Working Papers
Uncertainty Quantification for Ranking with Heterogeneous Preferences (with Jianqing Fan, Xiaonan Zhu)
Major revision at Journal of the American Statistical Association
Preference-Learned Allocation Mechanisms (with Jianqing Fan, Ran Shorrer), Draft available upon request
Justified-Envy-Minimal Efficient Mechanisms for Priority-Based Matching (with Ran Shorrer)
Revised and resubmitted to Games and Economic Behavior
Teaching Award
Sidney I. Simon Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching, Rutgers University, 2023
In recognition of outstanding teaching by a graduate student
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