I am an Assistant Professor at CUNY SPH, with expertise in both experimental biology and bioinformatics. As a molecular biologist by training, I had studied DNA repair and telomere maintenance mechanisms during my doctoral and postdoctoral research. As a bench scientist, I started to notice the limitations of arguing the extent to which my findings in cell lines were actually happening in living organisms and relevant to public health, and this made me interested in the potential of large public datasets. I made a career transition from a bench scientist to a bioinformatics scientist and joined Dr. Waldron’s lab at CUNY SPH as a postdoctoral researcher in 2017. Since then, I had worked on many research projects, published papers, and have developed a wide collaborative network and profound experience and understanding of large public omics data analysis, statistical method development for high-dimensional data, Cloud-based computing, AnVIL workspace and workflow developments, user-friendly software development. Currently, I am working on a NIH-funded project to construct an omics data repository designed for the easy application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools. My over-arching career goal is to facilitate interdisciplinary research through the development of intuitive bioinformatics infrastructure and user-friendly tools that lower barriers across different disciplines and resources. In my free time, I enjoys ballroom dancing and exploring different neighborhoods in New York.
Research Interests
- Public Data Reuse
- Develop methods for efficient database search and transfer learning
- Establish omics database for machine learning application
- Microbiome
- Understand personalized effects of antibiotics exposure on microbiome
- Supporting interdisciplinary research
- Make cloud computing resources accessible for non-technical users
- Design and develop platform/language-independent public data resource
Education and Training
| Postdoc | Bioinformatics | City University of New York | New York, NY, USA |
| Postdoc | Microbiology | Columbia University | New York, NY, USA |
| Ph.D. | Molecular Biology | University of Minnesota - Twin Cities | Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| B.S. | Biological Sciences | Seoul National University | Seoul, Korea |
Positions
| 2023 - Present | Assistant Professor | City University of New York |
| 2022 - 2023 | Research Assistant Professor | City University of New York |
Contacts
Contact me through email for any inquiry on collaborations and available positions.