About

I am a cancer biologist now working at the intersection of patient-derived disease models and artificial intelligence. My career has centered on one consistent question: how do we capture the molecular and pharmacological heterogeneity of human cancers in tractable preclinical models — and turn that data into computational predictions of optimal treatment?

Over the past decade, I have worked extensively with patient-derived cancer organoids and cell lines spanning six major cancer types — colorectal, pancreatic, breast, lung, glioblastoma, and sarcoma. Through a combination of biobanking, multi-omics profiling, and drug response screening, my collaborators and I have established platforms that capture intratumoral heterogeneity, identify clinically actionable molecular subtypes, and probe drug sensitivity under perturbations ranging from microbial co-culture to simulated microgravity.

Since March 2025, as an Assistant Professor of Bio-Medical AI in the School of AI and Data Science at the University of Suwon, I am extending this body of work toward hit-to-lead optimization, computational drug efficacy screening, prediction of optimal treatment, AI-based multi-omics, and disease modeling — developing analytic and machine-learning frameworks that treat patient-derived models as living datasets.

Education

2014 – 2020
PhD, Biomedical Sciences Seoul National University, College of Medicine Advisor: Prof. Ja-Lok Ku
2008 – 2013
BS, Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley

Positions

2025 – present
Assistant Professor, Bio-Medical AI School of AI and Data Science, University of Suwon
2022 – 2025
Research Assistant Professor Medical Research Center, Seoul National University
2020 – 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher Medical Research Center, Seoul National University

Service

2025 – present
Editorial Board Member Discover Oncology — Springer Nature Discover Series
2024 – present
Director of Academic Affairs Korean Cell Line Foundation