People

Principal investigator

Professor Sunjae Lee

Dr. Sunjae Lee is an lead scientist in data-driven life sciences, such as systems biology of human microbiome and the metabolism. He has received Ph.D. in bioinformatics/data mining at KAIST, and had professional experiences in world-leading systems biology groups of human and microbiome in Sweden and UK. He is now establishing the group of life data mining, investigating many types of chronic diseases, where microbiome and metabolism matters. 


Post-docs

Kirtipal Nikhil

Email: nkirtipal5@gist.ac.kr

I am a Postdoc researcher with experience in academia and research, holding a 

Ph.D. in the Faculty of Science (Biotechnology) from Panjab University, 

Chandigarh, India. With a background in genomics, I focus on multi-omics 

approaches to investigate microbiome dynamics, aiming to uncover novel insights 

into human health and disease.

Google Scholar Profile page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m86BQsIAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7422-3408

Vikas Singh

Email: vikkyak07@gist.ac.kr

I am Vikas received Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. My research interest is analyzing gene expression data using machine learning and fuzzy learning, and currently working on genome-scale modeling to understand the genotype-phenotype relationship.

Researchers

Byeongsop Song 

Email: statsong16@gist.ac.kr

I am a researcher in Life Mining Lab and currently analyzing Korean IBD samples. I am also in the doctoral program at Pusan National University. My specific interest area is Robust Statistics and Bayesian Modeling.

Students

Songwon Lim

Email: songwon409@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2020 Biotechnology & Bioengineering, Chonnam National University
M.S. 2023 School of Life Sciences, GIST
Ph.D. 2023-present Life Mining Lab, GIST

"Research interest : Genome scale metabolic modeling, Cancer biology"

"랩장"

"Server manager"



Jaewoo Baek 

Email: jwbaek9506@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2020 Life Sciences, Ajou University
M.S. -Ph.D. 2021-present Life Mining Lab, GIST

"Research interest : Metagenomics & Metatranscriptomics "

"Server manager"


Youngchang Seo

Email: youngchangseo@gm.gist.ac.kr


B.S. 2017 Molecular Life Sciences, Hanyang University ERICA Campus
M.S. 2023 School of Life Sciences, GIST

Ph.D. 2023-present Life Mining Lab, GIST

"Research interest : Microbiome and genome-scale metabolic modeling"

Junwoo Jo

Email: icecap3954@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2020 Life Sciences, Busan National University
M.S. 2023 School of Life Sciences, GIST
Ph.D. 2023-present Life Mining Lab, GIST

"Research interest :  Microbiome, Bioinformatics tool development"

"Server manager"


Nayeon Park

Email: nayeonpark@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2022 School of Biological Science and Technology, Chonnam National University
M.S. - Ph.D. 2022-present Life Mining Lab, GIST

"Research interest : Multi-Omics, Network biology, Bioinformatics, Metabolic diseases"

"Server manager, Homepage Manager"


Suyeon Lee

Email: suyeonlee@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2023  Biomedical Engineering, Dong-guk University
M.S. - Ph.D. 2023-present Life Mining Lab, GIST

"Research interest : Alzheimer disease and microbiome"



Hyeongjoon Ahn

Email: hyeongjoon_ahn@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2023  Medical IT  Convergenece Engineering,  Kumoh National Institute of Technology
M.S. 2023-present Life Mining Lab, GIST

"Research interest : FMT, Interactions between fecal gut microbiome"



Minseo Park

Email: oasulw0715@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2024 School of Biological Science and Technology, Chonnam National University
M.S. 2024-present Life Mining Lab, GIST

"Research interest : Biomarker discovering, Organ aging, Metabolic diseases"



Changpyo Hong

Email: gerrad403@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2024 School of Life Sciences, GIST
M.S. 2024-present Life Mining Lab, GIST

"Research interest : Microbiome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease"



Eunji Park

Email:  parkeunji0204@korea.kr

part-time ph.d.



Lab/data manager

Juhee Baek

Email:  baekjuhee88@gist.ac.kr

 



Visiting students

Ingyu Song

Email: rsm971025@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2021 Life Sciences, Incheon National University
M.S. - Ph.D. 2021-present Molecular Neuroethology Lab

"Research interest : Metabolism, Brain-Gut-Microbiome axis, Drosophila"

Kyeongseo Yi

Email:  rudtj9923@gm.gist.ac.kr

 BMP signaling and scRNA-seq analysis

Tam dao 

Email:  minhtam.smp@gmail.com

aging, microbiome, and omics analysis

Alumni

Jihun Jeung (M.S.)

Email: jihun@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2021 School of Life Sciences, GIST
M.S. 2023 School of Life Sciences, GIST

"Research interest : Bioinformatics, Data science, Multi-omics, Cancer biology"

"Current Position : Ph.D. program in Molecular Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA"



Hyunsoo Seo (Internship)

Email: charlesseo@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2018-2022 Department of Chemistry, GIST

"Research Interest: Metabolites from the Human Gut Microbiota"

"Current Position : Integrated Ph.D. program in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of California, Davis"


Minjun Kim (M.S.)

Email: fpwmzm@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2021 School of Life Sciences, GIST
M.S. 2023 School of Life Sciences, GIST

"Research interest : Alzheimer disease and gut-microbiome"

"Current Position : "


Visited students

Haizhuang Cai (Lucas)

Email: haizhuang.cai@kcl.ac.uk

B.S. 2018 Brewing and Distilling, Heriot-Watt University  &  Tianjin University of Science  & Technology
M.S. 2019 Microbiome in Health and Disease, King's college London

Ph.D. 2022-present Dential and Health science, King's college London 

Jae taek Hwang

Email: isoul9103@gm.gist.ac.kr

B.S. 2016 Medicine, Wonkwang University
M.D. 2020 Resident course for internal medicine, Wonkwang University

M.S. 2020 Internal Medicine, Wonkwang University
Ph.D. 2021-present BMSE, Life mining Lab, GIST

"고향 전주"

(Intern) Seohyun Hong: present , KAIST
(Intern) Dohyun Kim: present, Yonsei university
(Intern) Woojin Kim: present, GIST
(Intern) Hanje Kim: present, military service
(Intern ) Song-don Lee:  present, GIST
(Intern) Byeong-uk Lee: present,  KEFRONBIO
(Intern) Jiyeon Lyu: present, GIST

Jinwoo Choi: present, company
Byeongchang Sim:  present, Samsung medical Center
Baeki Kang:  present, Sungkyunkwan  University
Jaehong Kim: present, KAIST
Jihyun  Kim: present, POSTECH
Seunghee Jung: present, company
Channy  Park: present, GIST
Gyuho Jang: present, GIST
Suheyon Park: present, GIST
Ji Beom Lee: present, GIST 

(Visiting researcher) Gichang Kim, NIAS 
(Visiting researcher) Soyoung Lee, Pulmuone Institute of Technology