Short Bio

Sun Kim is Chair of Faculty Division C, Director of Center for Bioinformatics Research, Founding Director of Bioinformatics Program, an Associate Professor in School of Informatics and Computing; and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Medical Sciences Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. Prior to joining Indiana University in 2001, he worked at DuPont Central Research from 1998 to 2001, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1997 to 1998.  Sun Kim is a recipient of Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at Indiana University in 2004 and a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award DBI-0237901 from 2003 to 2008. He is actively contributing to the bioinformatics community, serving on the editorial board for journals including co-editor-in-chief for International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, serving on the steering committee of ACM SIG Bioinformatics, serving as vice chair for education for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Bioinformatics. He has been co-organizing many scientific meetings including ACM SIG Bioinformatics Conference 2011 as a program co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2008 as a program co-chair and 2009 as a conference co-chair. Sun Kim received a BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Seoul National University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and the University of Iowa, respectively.