Seungyoon Nam, Ph.D.

 Associate Professor

 College of Medicine, Gachon Univ., Incheon, Korea

 Tel: 032-460-2179 E-mail: nams@gachon.ac.kr

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Education

• Ph.D. Seoul National University, S. Korea

  • Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Aug 2008.

  • Understanding Gene Regulation: Bioinformatics Studies in microRNA Genes and Expression Data Analysis

  • Prof. Seokmin Shin (supervisor), Prof. Sanghyuk Lee (co-supervisor)

  • Field : computational genomics, machine learning, Bayesian statistics, categorical data

• M.S. Seoul National University, S. Korea

  • Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Aug 2004.

  • Target gene prediction of human microRNAs from the Rfam database by in silico analysis

  • Prof. Seokmin Shin(supervisor), Prof. Sanghyuk Lee(co-supervisor)

• B.S. Seoul National University, S. Korea

  • Chemistry, 2002

 

Positions and Honors

•  Positions and Employment

  • Apr 2011-Dec 2015, Senior researcher, National Cancer Center, Korea

  • Dec 2009-Apr 2011, Senior researcher, Supercomputing Center, KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)

  • Sep 2008-Feb 2010, Postdoctoral fellow, Medical Sciences Program, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, IN, U.S. (Supervisors Kenneth P Nephew, Sun Kim)

  • Mar 2006-Aug 2008, Researcher, Center For Cell Signaling Research, S. Korea

  • Sep 2005-Aug 2008, Linux/Database administrator, Lab. of Bioinformatics, Ewha Womans University, S. Korea

  • Jul 2003-Aug 2003, Visiting researcher, National Genome Information Center (now KOBIC), KRIBB, S. Korea(under Dr. Ungsik Yu)

 

• Other Experience and Professional Memberships

  • 2016-2017 Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, 2016; 2016 Workshop on Data mining from genomic rare variants and its application to genome-wide analysis

  • 2014 Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, 2014; 2014 Workshop on Data mining from genomic rare variants and its application to genome-wide analysis

  • 2011 Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, 2011

  • 2010 Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, 2010

  • 2009 Member, International Society for Computational Biology

  • 2009 Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, 2009

  • 2008 Member, International Society for Computational Biology

 

Past Contacts

• Indiana Univ. (Sep 2008-Feb 2010)

Medical Sciences Program, Indiana Univ.

JH 300, 1001 E 3rd St.

Bloomington, IN 47405, U.S.

(FAX) 1-812-855-4436

(Office) 1-812-856-2399

• Senior researcher, Supercomputing Center, KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) (12.21.2009-04.14.2011)

Yusung-Gu, Gwahak-Ro 335

Daejeon, Korea, 305-806

Phone: +82-42-869-0886

• Senior researcher, National Cancer Center of Korea (04.16.2011-12.29.2015)

New Experimental Therapeutics Branch, Research Institute

National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Phone: +82-31-920-2556