Sun Kim
Director of Bioinformatics Program
Associate Professor of Informatics
- Phone
- (812) 856-3009
- Office
- Informatics West, Room 203
- Web Site
- bio.informatics.indiana.edu/sunkim
Other Titles
- Affiliated Researcher, Biocompexity Institute
- Associated Faculty, Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Medical Sciences Program
Research Interests
Bioinformatics, combinatorial enumeration, string pattern matching, and machine learning.
Biography
Sun Kim received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Iowa in 1997. After graduation, he was director of bioinformatics and postdoctoral fellow at the Biotechnology Center and a visiting assistant professor of animal sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1997 to 1998.
Dr. Kim joined DuPont Central Research in 1998 and worked as senior computer scientist until August 2001. He is currently assistant professor at the School of Informatics, INGEN investigator at the Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, and adjunct assistant professor of Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests lie in string pattern matching techniques, machine learning, and combinatorial search and their application to bioinformatics. He has been working on developing algorithms and frameworks for genome sequencing and computational comparative genomics. Dr. Kim is the recent recipient of a prestigious NSF Career grant, and his research is being supported by grants from NSF, NIH, Lilly Endowment, and Collaboration in Life Sciences and Informatics Research (CLSIR) between IU and Purdue.
