Hyunghoon Cho

Hyunghoon Cho is an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (2019) and MS/BS in Computer Science from Stanford University (2013). His research focuses on computational challenges in biomedical data privacy, single-cell genomics, and network biology.

• Assistant Professor (Primary): Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
• Assistant Professor (Secondary): Computer Science
• Appointments: Yale School of Medicine | Broad Institute (Schmidt Fellow)

Research Themes:

• Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for genomic and health data
• Scalable AI/ML tools for omics data analysis
• Structured biological modeling for system-level discovery

His work includes secure GWAS, transcriptomic privacy assessment, and sfkit - a federated genomic analysis toolkit. He received the NIH Director's Early Independence Award and leads NSF-funded projects on confidential genome analytics.

Awards:
• NIH Director's Early Independence Award

Lab Members:
Haris Smajlović (Postdoc), Vincent Angelo (CBB MS), Denis Loginov (Senior Software Engineer), Lucy Zheng (CBB PhD)