Rate My Professor Sang Hong Lee

Sang Hong Lee earned a Bachelor of Agriculture from Dong-A University in South Korea in 1998, a Master of Agriculture from the University of New England (UNE) in 2002, and a Doctor of Philosophy from UNE in 2006. His PhD thesis, titled 'Fine mapping of quantitative trait loci: statistical development and application in livestock,' was completed in the School of Environmental and Rural Science. Throughout his career at UNE, he served as Research Assistant from March 2005 to April 2006, Post-doctoral Research Fellow from April 2006 to February 2008, Senior Research Fellow from March 2015 to August 2017, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer from 2017 to 2019. He also held the University of New England Research Assistantship (UNERA) from 2003 to 2005 and received an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2017 valued at $719,300 for developing novel statistical algorithms to quantify and partition pleiotropy between complex traits. Following his early roles at UNE, Lee worked as a Government Officer at the Korean National Institute of Animal Science from February 2008 to February 2009, Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research from February 2009 to December 2011, and Research Fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, from January 2012 to February 2015. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of South Australia, leading the statistical genetics group at the Australian Centre for Precision Health.

Lee's research centers on developing advanced statistical methods to estimate genetic variance and individual genetic effects based on phenotype-genotype association analyses, as well as understanding the genetic architecture of complex traits through models addressing genotype-by-environment interactions. These approaches have applications in human genetics, animal and plant breeding, evolutionary genetics, and social and behavioral sciences. Key publications include 'Predicting Unobserved Phenotypes for Complex Traits from Whole-Genome SNP Data' (Journal of Dairy Science, 2008), 'Estimating Missing Heritability for Disease from Genome-Wide Association Studies' (American Journal of Human Genetics, 2011), 'Estimating the Proportion of Variation in Susceptibility to Schizophrenia Captured by Common SNPs' (Nature Genetics, 2012), 'Genetic Relationship Between Five Psychiatric Disorders Estimated From Genome-Wide SNPs' (Nature Genetics, 2013), and 'Estimation of SNP Heritability from Dense Genotype Data' (American Journal of Human Genetics, 2013). He has produced over 100 peer-reviewed publications, amassing approximately 27,000 citations with an h-index of 56. His contributions have advanced genomic selection in livestock breeding during his UNE tenure and continue to impact precision medicine. Additional honors include finalist status in the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for Scientific Research (2012) and the Australia Society of Medical Research Queensland Health and Medical Senior Researcher Award (2014), along with grants such as ARC Discovery Project (2019) and MRFF Research Grants (2021, 2023).