Sehyun Oh
Assistant Professor at The CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSehyun Oh is an Assistant Professor at The CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, driven by translational research and clinical informatics with over a decade in cancer research and more than seven years in bioinformatics. She aims to accelerate clinical application of scientific knowledge by enabling public data reuse and developing user-friendly bioinformatics tools. Her expertise spans cancer genomics, software development, R/Bioconductor, cloud computing, and containerized workflows (Docker), with hands-on deployment of analysis pipelines in cloud platforms like Terra/FireCloud. In recent work, she analyzed ovarian cancer subtype heterogeneity and single-cell RNA-seq data for cancer subtyping and evolution, while building scalable WDL/Docker workflows. She has mentored researchers across multiple roles and currently leads implementation science initiatives in population health from New York. She earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Seoul National University, summa cum laude.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Biological Sciences, summa cum laude, B.S., Biological Sciences, summa cum laude at Seoul National UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Korean, English
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Github Skills (72)
interpretation10
transferlearning10
bioconductor10
mesh10
rnaseq10
rna-seq10
principal-component-analysis10
anvil10
tuple9
nmf9
terra9
exploratory-data-analysis9
bioinformatics9
r-package9
meta-analysis9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
waldronlab/OmicsMLRepoData
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Translate Bioconductor resources into AI/ML-ready format + Manual curation/harmonization of the metadata for improved usability
Contributions:14 reviews, 23 PRs, 86 pushes in 2 years 3 months
nlpusabilityai-mlimprovedmachine-learning
shbrief/OmicsMLRepoR
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Bioconductor package to access the harmonized metadata through ontology
Contributions:1 review, 20 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year
u24ca289073
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