Bong-hyun Kim
Chief Technology Officer at Sotirion Biosciences
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBong-hyun Kim is a technology leader and bioinformatics expert with 12 years of experience bridging computational biology research and industry, currently serving as CTO at Sotirion Biosciences. He holds a PhD in Computational Biology from UT Southwestern and has co-authored 20+ papers while building end-to-end genomics pipelines, visualization tools, and machine learning models for NGS and immunogenomics applications. His career spans strategic and hands-on roles from VP-level bioinformatics leadership to principal scientist positions at Kite Pharma, where he led tumor and immune repertoire analytics for cell therapy. Proficient in Python, R, Java, C/C++, and big-data frameworks like Hadoop/Spark, he combines practical software engineering with statistical rigor and protein sequence/structure design experience. Known for moving academic methods into production, he has a track record of scaling analyses for terabytes of biomedical data and deploying ML-driven neoantigen/TCR discovery workflows.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Biology, PhD Computational Biology at UT Southwestern Medical CenterBS Biology / Computer Science, BS Biology / Computer Science at Handong Global University
English, Korean
Github Skills (30)
rna-seq10
singularity9
reproducible-science9
slurm9
reproducible-research9
nextflow9
chip-seq9
groovy9
pipeline9
aws9
bioinformatics9
docker8
dsl8
dataflow8
data-driven7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CCBR/ChIP-Seq-Pipeline
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 56 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
chip-seqpipelinechipnextflowseq
joshuabhk/Pipeliner
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 18 pushes, 3 tags in 2 months
pipelinerpipeline
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