News and Highlights

RECOMB 2026 Best Paper Award

We received the Best Paper Award at RECOMB 2026 for our work on differentially private genome-wide association analysis.

NIH Pangenomics Grant

We received a NIH U01 grant to develop population-scale, privacy-preserving computational tools for pangenome research.

William Hu Receives NSF GRFP Award

Our PhD student, William Hu, co-advised by Katerina Sotiraki, has received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations to William on this achievement!

New PhD Program in Human Genome Sciences

We’re affiliated with Yale’s new Human Genome Sciences (HGS) track in the Biological & Biomedical Sciences PhD Program. Hoon serves as the Director of Graduate Admissions for HGS.

NSF Grant for Confidential Genome Analytics

We received a NSF grant as part of the Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Practice (PDaSP) program to build secure technologies for genome imputation and analytics services.

New Home: 101 College

BIDS department and our lab moved to the 10th floor of the new 101 College St. building!

Interview Article in YSM News

Interview with Hoon is featured in Yale School of Medicine news.

Publication in Nature Genetics

Our latest work on secure federated genome-wide association studies (SF-GWAS) has been published in Nature Genetics.

RECOMB Privacy & Equity 2025 in Seoul

Hoon will be co-chairing next year’s RECOMB Satellite Conference on Biomedical Privacy and Equity (RECOMB-P&E). Submission deadline is February 5th, 2025. Visit website for more information.

Affiliation with Yale Computer Science

Hoon received a secondary appointment in the CS department at Yale.