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Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Email: hoon.cho at yale dot edu [ Lab Website ] [ Google Scholar Profile ] We are looking for new lab members! If you are interested, feel free to send me an email. |
I joined Yale School of Medicine in September 2023 as an assistant professor (tenure-track) in the Section of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. Prior to this position, I was a Schmidt Fellow and Principal Investigator at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in 2019 and previously obtained both an M.S. and a B.S. with Honors in Computer Science from Stanford University. I am honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director's Early Independence Award.
My research focuses on overcoming key computational challenges in the analysis of massive biomedical datasets using mathematical tools from a range of domains, including machine learning and applied cryptography. Specific problem areas of interest include biomedical data privacy, single-cell genomics, and network biology. The broad, long-term goal of my research is to empower biomedical researchers with efficient algorithms that not only enhance their ability to extract meaningful biological insights from noisy and high-dimensional experimental data, but also unlock new analytic workflows that could not be realized with existing techniques.
[09/01/2023] I am excited to start my faculty position at Yale. Here is a new website for my lab.
[05/08/2023] My lab is moving to Yale University in September 2023. If you are interested in joining us, feel free to contact me.
[03/31/2023] Our team won second place in the final round of the U.S. Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Prize Challenge. See here for the announcement.
[11/23/2022] I will be serving as an Area Co-Chair (Genome Privacy and Security) for ISMB/ECCB 2023.
[11/10/2022] Our team won first place in the U.S. Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Prize Challenge in Phase 1. Here is the announcement.
[09/09/2022] I will be serving as an Area Chair for Machine Learning in Computational Biology (MLCB) Conference 2022.
[02/17/2022] I joined the Program Committee of IEEE S&P 2023.
[11/30/2021] I will be serving as an Area Chair (Genome Privacy and Security) for ISMB 2022.
[10/12/2021] I am excited to be part of a newly established Center of Excellence in Genomic Science at UCSD as Co-Investigator.
[08/17/2021] My #WhyIScience interview is featured on the Broad Institute blog.
[05/11/2021] I joined the Program Committee of GenoPri 2021.
[01/18/2021] Our density-preserving data visualization paper is now published in Nature Biotechnology.
[01/06/2021] I joined the Proceedings Program Committee of ISMB/ECCB 2021.
[12/18/2020] Our privacy-preserving genotype imputation paper is accepted to RECOMB 2021. Preprint is available here.
[10/06/2020] I am grateful to receive the NIH Director's Early Independence Award.
[09/03/2020] I joined the Program Committee of RECOMB 2021.
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 09/2013 - 06/2019
Advisor: Bonnie Berger
M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University, 03/2012 - 06/2013
B.S. in Computer Science with Honors, Stanford University, 09/2009 - 06/2013
Honors Thesis Advisor: Daphne Koller
Korea Science Academy of KAIST, 03/2006 - 12/2008
Teaching Assistant for 6.867: Machine Learning, taught by Devavrat Shah, Suvrit Sra, and David Sontag, MIT, Fall 2017.
Teaching Assistant for 18.418: Topics in Computational Molecular Biology, taught by Bonnie Berger, MIT, Spring 2016.
Teaching Assistant for CS 228: Probabilistic Graphical Models, taught by Daphne Koller, Stanford University, 03/2013 - 06/2013.
Section Leader for CS 106A: Programming Methodology and CS 106X: Programming Abstractions, Stanford University, 01/2011 - 12/2011.
Schmidt Fellow (Principal Investigator), Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 07/2019 - 08/2023.
Graduate Research Assistant, MIT Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL), 2013 - 2019.
Research Intern, Microsoft Research New England, Summer 2014.
Business Development Intern, Palantir Technologies, Summer 2012.