Professor

Principal Investigator


  Wonil Chung, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor in Statistics
  Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
  Soongsil University



Information

Address: 369 Sangdo-Ro, Dongjak-Gu, Baird Hall 511, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea 06978
Tel: +82-2-820-0441
Email : wchung (at) ssu.ac.kr
URL: http://statistics.ssu.ac.kr/~wchung

Research Interest

Biostatistics, Statistical Genetics, Statistical Computing,
Big Data Analysis, Statistical Learning, Deep Learning, Bayesian Statistics,
Polygenic Prediction, GWAS Studies, Transcriptomics, Methylomics, Metabolomics

Education and Training

Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Ph.D. in Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA (2013)
M.S. in Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (2008)
B.S. in Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (2006)

Awards

Natural Science Award (2020), Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea
Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research-Semifinalist (2018), ASHG, MD, USA
Nguyen V. Dat Excellence Award (2008), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Professional Affiliations

American Statistical Association (ASA)
Eastern North American Region, International Biometric Society (ENAR)
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
Korean Statistical Society (KSS)
Korean Genome Organization (KOGO)

Teaching

Regression Analysis, Categorical Data Analysis, Data Mining, Deep Learning, Statistical Computing
Linear Models, Statistical Learning, Information Theory