Byung-Jun Yoon

Byung-Jun Yoon received his B.S.E. (summa cum laude) degree from Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea, in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, in 2002 and 2007, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech from Dec. 2006 to Oct. 2007. In 2008, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, where he is currently an assistant professor. His recent honors include the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Best Paper Award at the 9th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC), both in 2011. His main research interest is in signal processing, machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology.