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Sangwoo Kim, Ph.D.

Professor

Dept. of Biomedical Systems Informatics,

Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

 

E-mail: swkim@yuhs.ac

Tel: +82-2-2228-2589

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Education

 

  • Ph.D. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, January 2010

    • Dissertation: "Combining Clinical Information and Gene Expression Patterns for Cancer Prognosis"

 

  • M.S. in Biosystem Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, August 2004

    • Thesis: “Interpretation of genetic regulatory networks using protein interaction and transcription information”

 

  • B.S. in Computer Science, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, August 2002 (Biology Science minor)

Languages

 

Korean

English

 
Work experience

 

2025 - 

Professor,

Dept. of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

 

2020 - 2024

Associate Professor

Dept. of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

​2014 - 2020

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

 

​2010/08 - 2013/12

 

Postdoctoral Research Associate (PI. Prof. Vineet Bafna)

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, United States

 
​2010/02 - 2010/07

 

Postdoctoral Researcher (PI. Prof. Doheon Lee)

Information & Electronics Research Institute, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

 

​2005/03 - 2010/01

 

Graduate Researcher & Teaching Assistant

Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

 

Skills

 

- NGS analysis method development

- Java, Python and other programming languages

- Tools for massively parallel sequence analysis

2010 - present

2010 - present

Academic Activities

 

Member of International Society for Computational Biology, 2012~

 - vice general affiar comittee from 2025-

Member of Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, 2013~

Head of Bioinformatics Core, Yonsei Genomics Center, 2014~General co-affair of Korean Society for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, 2015~

Member of Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST), 2020~

 - executive member from 2023-​

Local Chair, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2020), Dec 2020, Seoul Korea

Poster Chair, RECOMB 2025, Seoul Korea

Peer Reviewer in major academic journals including:

Nature Biotechnology, Nature Communications, Genome Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and other journals in Bioinformatics/Genomics/Oncology

Publications
 

See Publication Page for the full list of journal/conference publications

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