Hee Youn Kwon (권희연) was a postdoc in Professor Hyejin Youn’s research group at Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) and Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University conducting research in the field of computational social science. She received her PhD in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2018. At the University of Illinois, she had worked as a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (ISE), the Computational Science and Engineering Program (CSE), and the Department of Computer Science (CS). She wrote her PhD dissertation on new developments in causal inference using Balance Optimization Subset Selection under supervision of Professor Sheldon H. Jacobson. Prior to Illinois, she received a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and an M.Phil. in Economics from University of Oxford.