News and Highlights

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.

Joining the Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science

Hoon became a member of the Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS), a hub for interdisciplinary research on mathematical, algorithmic, and statistical foundations of data science.

Best Student Paper Award at RECOMB 2024

Our paper on secure detection of genetic relatives, led by Matt Hong at MIT, won the Best Student Paper Award at RECOMB 2024. Congratulations to Matt!

BIDS Becomes a Department

We are now part of the Department of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science (BIDS), which was previously designated as a Section at Yale School of Medicine.

Attending RECOMB 2024 at MIT

We are contributing a proceedings talk and three posters at RECOMB 2024, as well as three talks at RECOMB-PRIEQ, a new satellite conference on biomedical privacy and equity. If you’re interested in our work, come meet us!

Joining Yale’s CBB PhD Program

Hoon joined the faculty of Yale’s interdepartmental PhD program in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (CBB). A masters degree (MS) program is also offered (see here). Talented students are encouraged to apply!