Areas of Interest: Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Healthcare Informatics

Education

• KAIST, Ph.D in Computer Science, 1995

• KAIST, M.S. in Computer Science, 1992

• KAIST, B.S. in Computer Science, 1990

Professional Experience

• Director, National Research Council of Science and Technology (국가과학기술연구회 이사), 2023~Present

• Chair, Bio-Health Data Platform Council (바이오헬스 데이타플랫폼협의체 공동위원장), 2024-Present

• Chair, Bio-IT Fusion Committee, Korean Synthetic Biology Development Association (한국합성생물학 발전협의회 융합분과장), 2023~Present

• Director, National Assembly Future Institute (국회미래연구원 이사), 2025-Present

• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Bio-Data (바이오 데이타 저널 편집장), 2025-Present

• Vice President, Korean Society for Digital Therapy (대한디지털치료학회 부회장), 2021~Present

• Member, Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology (국가과학기술자문회의 위원), 2020~2022

• Vice President, Office of Academic Affairs (교무처장), KAIST, 2023~2024

• Chair, KAIST Centenary Vision Committe (KAIST 100년 비전위원회 위원장), KAIST, 2021~2022

• President, Korea Society for Bioinformatics (한국생명정보학회장), 2019~2020

• President, Bio-Synergy National Project  (유전자동의보감 국책사업단장), 2013~2022

• Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2025~Present

• Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2001~2010

• Adjunct/Visiting Professor/Researcher, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, Indiana University at Bloomington, IN, University of Texas at Austin, TX, The Translational Genomics Research Institutes (TGen), AZ, and National Institutes of Health (NIH), MD

Lectures at KAIST (담당교과목)

• BiS332 Bio-Information Processing (바이오정보처리)

• BiS631 Data Mining (데이타마이닝)

• BiS732 Bio-Network (바이오네트워크)

Publicatons and Patents

• Around 200 International Papers and 40 Technical Patents in Bioinformatics and Data Mining