Faculty Biography

Byung-Jun Yoon, PhD

Yoon-2022-Dec-square

Professor
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, USA

Scientist
Computational Science Initiative (CSI)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY, USA

Brookhaven National Lab (BNL): https://www.bnl.gov/staff/byoon
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KxPLjXkAAAAJ
GitHub: https://github.com/bjyoontamu
Objective-based UQ: https://objectiveuq.org

Short Biography

Dr. Byung-Jun Yoon received the B.S.E. (summa cum laude) degree from the Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea, in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, in 2002 and 2007, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. In 2008, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, where he is currently a Professor. Dr. Yoon also holds a joint appointment at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY, where he is a Scientist in Computational Science Initiative (CSI). During October 2014-August 2016, Dr. Yoon was on a leave of absence from Texas A&M and worked at the Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar, as one of the founding faculty members in the College of Science and Engineering. He received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the Best Paper Award at the 9th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC), the Best Paper Award at the 12th Annual MCBIOS Conference, and the SLATE Teaching Excellence Award from the Texas A&M University System. Dr. Yoon’s main theoretical interests include objective-based uncertainty quantification, optimal experimental design (OED), machine learning, and signal processing. Application areas of interest include bioinformatics, computational network biology, and AI-driven drug/materials discovery.

Research Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for Science
  • Optimal Experimental Design & Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
  • Bioinformatics & Computational Network Biology

Education

Experience

 Honors & Awards

  • 2015: Best Paper Award, 12th Annual MCBIOS Conference.
  • 2012: Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. National Science Foundation (NSF), USA.
  • 2011: Best Paper Award, 9th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC).
  • 2009: Student Led Award for Teaching Excellence (SLATE), Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX, USA.
  • 2004: Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA.
  • 2003: Best Paper Award (2nd place), 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
  • 2001: Killgore Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
  • 2001: Doctoral Scholarship, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), Seoul, Korea.

Professional Activities

Professional Society Membership/Service

  • ACM SIGBio, Treasurer, 2021 July – 2024 June
  • IEEE, Senior Member, 2011 – present

Editorial Board

Guest Editor

  • Patterns, Lead Guest Editor, Special Collection on “Accelerating Scientific Discoveries Through Data-driven Innovations”, 2023
  • EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Systems Engineering Approaches for Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Computational Biology, 2013-2014.
  • Journal of Biological Systems (JBS), Guest Editor, Special Issue on Genomic Signal Processing (GSP), 2012-2013.
  • EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Guest Editor, Special Issue on Sequence Analysis and Synthesis, 2011-2012.
  • EURASIP Journal of Advances in Signal Processing, Guest Editor, Special Issue on Genomic Signal Processing, 2010-2011.

Conference Organization

  • General Chair, 15th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2024), Shenzhen, China, 2024.
  • General Chair, 14th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2023), Houston, TX, 2023.
  • Data Hackathon Committee Co-Chair, First IEEE Healthcare Summit (IHS), 2021.
  • Program Chair, The 6th International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2019), Niaga Falls, NY, 2019.
  • Program Chair, The 5th International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2018), Washington, DC, 2018.
  • Program Chair, The 4th International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2017), Boston, MA, 2017.
  • Program Chair, The 3rd International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2016), Seattle, WA, 2016.
  • Program Chair, The 2nd International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2015), Atlanta, GA, 2015.
  • Program Chair, International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2014), Newport Beach, CA, 2014.
  • Finance Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), Houston, TX, 2013.
  • Technical Program Chair, IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Symposium on Bio Signal Processing, Austin, TX, 2013.
  • Publication Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2010.

Leave a comment