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 and translational bioinformatics researcher with over a decade of cancer research experience and seven-plus years building bioinformatics tools. She combines wet-lab expertise in DNA repair and gene editing with strong software development skills (R/Bioconductor, Docker, WDL) to make large-scale genomic analysis reusable and accessible. Her work spans single-cell RNA-seq, CNV analysis of TCGA, and cloud-deployed workflows on GCP/Terra, contributing to AnVIL-Bioconductor interoperability. She has a track record of mentoring and collaborative research across academia and industry, and has translated complex methods into user-friendly bioinformatics services. Based in New York, she uniquely bridges molecular biology and production-grade computational pipelines to accelerate clinical application of genomic discoveries.
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 (68)
interpretation10
bioconductor10
mesh10
rna-seq10
principal-component-analysis10
anvil10
tuple9
nmf9
terra9
exploratory-data-analysis9
bioinformatics9
r-package9
meta-analysis9
r8
databases8
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
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