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Hyunghoon (Hoon) Cho joined Yale School of Medicine in September 2023 as an assistant professor (tenure-track) in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. Prior to this position, he was a Schmidt Fellow and Principal Investigator at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Cho received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Bonnie Berger and previously obtained both an M.S. and a B.S. with Honors in Computer Science from Stanford University. He has been named a recipient of the NIH Director's Early Independence Award.

What do you do with Data Science?

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.

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