Seung Jae Lee

PhD student in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

University of Southern California

Biography

Seung Jae is an incoming PhD student in Computaional Biology and Bioinformatics at University of Southern California (USC). He got both of his Master's and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Hanyang University. He worked with Professor Mina Rho at Data Mining and Bioinformatics Lab during his Master's degree, and was also supervised by Professor Yongjun Park during his first degree.

His research interests include bioinformatics, genomics, and deep learning. More specifically, he focuses on extracting intrinsic features from genomic data and applying deep learning algorithms to solve biological problems in novel ways.

Apart from academic interests, he is into playing tennis and traveling around the world!

If you want to know more about SJ, you can see his up-to-date CV!

News!

2022.01.17. A paper was published to Nature Scientific Reports. Congrats!

Education

PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Aug. 2022 - present

University of Southern California

Advisor: Dr. Mark Chaisson (rotation)

M.S. in Computer Science, Mar. 2020 - Feb. 2022

Hanyang University

Advisor: Dr. Mina Rho

Major GPA: 4.0/4.0

B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Mar. 2014 - Feb. 2020

Hanyang University

Advisor: Dr. Yongjun Park

Major GPA: 3.71/4.0, Cum Laude

The period includes 21 months of military service as a Korean Augmentation To the United States Army (KATUSA)

Publication [* denotes equal contribution]

[1] Seung Jae Lee, Mina Rho. “Multimodal Deep Learning applied to classify healthy and disease states of human Microbiome”. Nature Scientific Reports. 12, 824 (2022) URL, code

[2] Ho-jin Gwak*, Seung Jae Lee*, Mina Rho. “Application of computational approaches to analyze metagenomic data”. J Microbiol. 59, 233-241 (2021). URL

[3] Seung Jae Lee, Dujin Jeong, Jieun Kim, Siwan Kim, Yongseung Yu, Yongjun Park. “Automation of Memory Instructions Re-scheduling Algorithm in OpenCL Kernel”. Korea Software Congress 2019 (KSC 2019, Poster). URL

Teaching

Teaching assistant

[ITE1015] Creative Software Programming, Hanyang University - Fall 2020, Fall 2021

Mentor

[CSE4009] System Programming, Hanyang University - Fall 2018

Voluntary tutor/mentor program for middle- and high-school students, Mah-duel community welfare center - Spring 2014

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