Hyunkyung Kim

Hyunkyung Kim is a graduate research assistant at the University of Chicago, focusing on Bayesian matrix factorization models to decode genetic signals from phenotype matrices in biobanks, with presentations at prestigious conferences on Major Depressive Disorder. Previously, Hyunkyung served as a bioinformatics specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, creating a high-throughput genetic variant processing pipeline and conducting significant research on Type 2 Diabetes, resulting in conference presentations and a publication in Diabetologia. In addition, Hyunkyung has experience as an associated researcher at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and as a graduate research assistant at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, specializing in gene regulatory networks for cancer. Educational qualifications include a PhD in Genetics from the University of Chicago and a Master's degree in Computational Biology & Quantitative Genetics from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.