Jae Min Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Engineering at Yonsei University. He has research interests in non-conventional and underground public space, ecological modeling of cities and regions, and bridging the gap between quantitative and qualitative research traditions in urban design. He is an emerging scholar at the PENN Institute for Urban Research and an external faculty collaborator at the Center for Environmental Building & Design, University of Pennsylvania. He has worked in a range of city building projects as an urban design associate in both Chicago and New York offices at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill LLP.