Updated in May, 2026
About
I’m a PhD student at the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. My main areas of interest are population genetics, phylogenetics, and dynamical systems. I strongly prefer mechanistic explanations over statistical descriptions. Ordinary and partial differential equations are my best friends.
I’m currently working on the following problems:
- Evolutionary foundation of statistical genetics
- Augmenting phylogenetic models with neural networks
- Random dynamical systems on manifolds
Contact: hblee@umich.edu
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Statistics (2024.9 -)
Seoul National University
- Bachelor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences (2017.3 - 2023.8)
- Doctor of Medicine, Department of Medicine (2016.3 - 2023.8)
Professional service
Peer review
International Journal of Epidemiology, Nature Communications, Genetics (GSA), HGG Advances, BMC Medical Research Methodology, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Advances
Publications
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Preprints
- Hanbin Lee, and Jonathan Terhorst Linkage disequilibrium moderates how evolving genetic background shapes variant-level architecture. bioRxiv, 2026
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Journals
- Hanbin Lee, and Jonathan Terhorst Parameterizing the genetic architecture under stabilizing selection. Genetics, 2026
- Hanbin Lee*, Nathaniel S. Pope*, Jerome Kelleher, Gregor Gorjanc, and Peter L. Ralph Genetic prediction with ARG-powered linear algebra. Genetics, 2026
- Brieuc Lehmann, Hanbin Lee, Luke Anderson-Trocme, Jerome Kelleher, Gregor Gorjanc, and Peter L. Ralph On ARGs, pedigrees, and genetic relatedness matrices. Genetics, 2026
- Hanbin Lee, Rosalind F. Craddock, Gregor Gorjanc, and Hannes Becher randPedPCA: Rapid approximation of principal components from large pedigrees. Genetics Selection Evolution, 2025
- Hanbin Lee*, Moo Hyuk Lee*, Kangcheng Hou, Bogdan Pasaniuc, and Buhm Han Admixed and single-continental genome segments of the same ancestry have distinct linkage disequilibrium patterns. Genome Biology, 2025
- Hanbin Lee, and Buhm Han Pseudobulk with proper offsets has the same statistical properties as generalized linear mixed models in single-cell case-control studies. Bioinformatics, 2024
- Hanbin Lee, and Buhm Han FastRNA: an efficient exact solution for PCA of single-cell RNA sequencing data based on a batch-accounting count model. American Journal of Human Genetics, 2022
- Hanbin Lee, and Buhm Han A theory-based practical solution to correct for sex-differential participation bias. Genome Biology, 2022
- Chanwoo Kim*, Hanbin Lee*, Juhee Jeong, Keehoon Jung and Buhm Han MarcoPolo: a clustering-free approach to the exploration of differentially expressed genes along with group information in single-cell RNA-seq data. Nucleic Acids Research, 2022
*: Equal contribution