Sun Kim

Bloomington. Prior to IU, he worked at DuPont Central Research as Senior Computer Scientist from 1998 to 2001, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1997 to 1998 as Director of Bioinformatics and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Biotechnology Center and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Animal Sciences . Sun Kim received B.S and M.S and Ph.D in Computer Science from Seoul National University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Advisor Song C. Moon), and the University of Iowa (Advisor Alberto Maria Segre) respectively.

Sun Kim is a recipient of Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at Indiana University 2004-2005, NSF CAREER Award DBI-0237901 from 2003 to 2008, Achievement Award at DuPont Central Research in 2000, and a best poster award at Beckman Institute Symposium on Bioinformatics, Structure, and Function, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997.

Sun Kim's research interest includes sequence clustering, motif (pattern) discovery, comparative genomics, string pattern matching, machine learning. One important goal is to pursue collaborative research with biologists and medical sciences. The current collaborative projects are to develop algorithms and systems for microbial genome annotation and comparison, funded by grants from National Science Foundations, and to analyze and model epigenetic changes in cancer genomes, funded by a grant from National Cancer Institute.