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I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. I work with Prof. Rui Kuang and am a member of Computational Biology Group.

Research Interests

My research is focused on developing and applying bioinformatics approaches that utilize large and various types of genomic data to discover and understand genetic roles in human diseases.

My computational approaches have already been utilized to identify cancer biomarkers, and build accurate predictive models for cancer prognosis and treatment from large-scale genomic data including gene expressions, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), copy number variants (CNVs) and clinical data.

Moving forward, I am interested in developing robust statistical and computational approaches based on data mining and machine learning techniques for an integrated analysis of multiple types of large scale genomic and clinical data to discover underlying biological principles of cancers, and other rare and complex human diseases.

Selected Awards and Honors

1. The One Nominated Candidate by Computer Science Department for Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowships, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2009.

2. ICDM’08 Student Travel Grant, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2008.

3. UKC’07 Student Travel Grant, Korean-American Scientists Engineering Association, 2008.

4. Research paper competition (4th place), Inha University, 2005 

5. Merit-based scholarship for Graduate Study, Inha University, 2004 ~ 2005. 

6. Academic Excellence Fellowship Award, Inha University, 2001 ~ 2003.