Sunkyu Kim, Ph.D.
Director of AI research
AIGEN Sciences, Seoul, Korea
[Curriculum Vitae] [Github] [Google Scholar]
Research area
Artificial Intelligence-based Drug discovery
Bioinformatics, Pharmacogenomics, Cheminformatics.
Computational Biology and Medicine
Multi-omics analysis, Survival prediction, Natural Language Processing
News
[01/2024] Large Language Models: A Guide for Radiologists was published in Korean Journal of Radiology. (First autor) [Link]
[12/2023] Enhancing Clinical Outcome Predictions through Auxiliary Loss and Sentence-Level Self-Attention was presented at BIBM 2023. (Corresponding author) [Link]
[08/2023] Evaluation of crowdsourced mortality prediction models as a framework for assessing artificial intelligence in medicine was published in JAMIA. [Link]
[07/2023] Biomedical relation extraction with knowledge base–refined weak supervision was published in Database. [Link]
Awards
Third place in CTD² Pancancer Drug Activity DREAM Challenge, 2020
Co-first place in IDG-DREAM Drug-Kinase Binding Prediction Challenge, 2019
First Place in NCI-CPTAC DREAM Proteogenomics Challenge, 2018
Second place in AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination Prediction DREAM Challenge, 2016
Education
(Aug. 2020) Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering in Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Advisor: Prof. Jaewoo Kang
(Feb. 2017) M.S., Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Bioinformatics in Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Advisor: Prof. Jaewoo Kang
(Feb. 2015) B.S., Computer Science and Engineering in Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Selected Publications
Sunkyu Kim†, Choong-kun Lee†, Yonghwa Choi, Eun Sil Baek, Jeong Eun Choi, Joon Seok Lim, Jaewoo Kang* and Sang Joon Shin*
Frontiers in Oncology, Nov. 2021 (IF: 6.244)
Improved survival analysis by learning shared genomic information from pan-cancer data
Sunkyu Kim, Keonwoo Kim, Junseok Choe, Inggeol Lee, Jaewoo Kang*
ISMB 2020 (Oral presentation, acceptance rate: 13.8%); Bioinformatics, July 2020 (IF: 5.610)
BioBERT: pre-trained biomedical language representation model for biomedical text mining
Jinhyuk Lee†, Wonjin Yoon†, Sungdong Kim, Donghyeon Kim, Sunkyu Kim, Chan Ho So, Jaewoo Kang*
Bioinformatics, Feb. 2020 (IF: 4.531)
ChimerDB 4.0: an updated and expanded database of fusion genes
Ye Eun Jang†, Insu Jang†, Sunkyu Kim†, Subin Cho†, Daehan Kim, Keonwoo Kim, Jaewon Kim, Jimin Hwang, Sangok Kim, Jaesang Kim, Jaewoo Kang, Byungwook Lee*, Sanghyuk Lee*
Nucleic Acids Research, Jan. 2020 (IF: 11.147)
Mut2Vec: distributed representation of cancerous mutations
Sunkyu Kim†, Heewon Lee†, Keonwoo Kim, Jaewoo Kang*
BMC medical genomics, Apr. 2018