Published multiple peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Neuron, Genome Research, and Cell Reports. Received several awards including the Travel Fellowship for the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology / European Conference on Computational Biology (2019), TMC Biomedical Faculty Award (2019), and Travel Fellowship for the Summer School in Systems Medicine (2018).
Research Experience
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine (2024 - present); Senior Scientist, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Precede Biosciences (2021-2024); Research Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (2020-2021); Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine & Texas Children’s Hospital (2015-2020) (Mentors: Zhandong Liu and Huda Y. Zoghbi).
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Ajou University, South Korea (2015); M.Eng. in Information and Communication Technology from Ajou University, South Korea (2009); B.S. in Information and Computer Engineering from Ajou University, South Korea (2007).
Background
Computer Scientist, experienced in algorithm design and statistical machine learning, with full experience in next generation sequencing data analysis. Highly skilled in R and Python.
Miscellany
Developed several software tools, including CB2, CRISPRCloud2, SalmonTE, and MINA.