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

Education
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Ph.D. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, January 2010
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Dissertation: "Combining Clinical Information and Gene Expression Patterns for Cancer Prognosis"
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M.S. in Biosystem Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, August 2004
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Thesis: “Interpretation of genetic regulatory networks using protein interaction and transcription information”
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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