Software Engineer Computer Science

KYU-CHUL CHO

T 208-***-**** **********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

ooking for an opportunity to grow as a software engineer.

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EDUCATION

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

University of Idaho expected graduation in Dec. 2012

GPA 3.57 / 4.0

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

University of Idaho Dec. 2009

GPA 3.65 / 4.0

EXPERIENCE

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Program of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Idaho; Moscow, ID Jun. 2010 - Present

• Researched algorithms to efficiently calculate probabilities from Bayesian networks (machine learning).

• Developing a java application based on the researched algorithms.

• Analyzed a complex disease Bacterial vaginosis with a Bayesian network using patient RNA data.

• Developed the file reading part of a DNA/RNA sequence reader: rSFFreader package in Bioconductor.

PART TIME DEVELOPER

University of Idaho; Moscow, ID

May. 2009 - Dec. 2009

• Developed a graphical user interface based Mac(Cocoa)/QT application by implementing

a statistical RNA gene clustering method in C++.

WINTER OF CODE PARTICIPANT

Winter of Code, NC Soft Corporation Jan. 2009 - Mar. 2009

• NC Soft is a South Korea-based video game development company that has about 3,000 employees.

• Our team developed an Android content browser that enables tag, history, and location views of photos.

• My role was to develop and test database APIs for other developers.

SKILLS

Agile software development / Test driven development

Skill Level

Object oriented programming

Algorithm development

Data analysis (Machine learning)

C++ Java R Obj.C HTML

Probability Bay: software for Bayesian network probability calculation

PUBLICATIONS

Bioinformatics journal

expected submission in Apr. 2013

Kyu-Chul Cho and Zaid Abdo

DATA DRIVEN ANALYSIS: POSSIBLE CAUSES OF BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS AND

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VAGINAL BACTERIAL SPECIES

The International Society for Microbial Ecology journal

expected submission in Apr. 2013

Kyu-Chul Cho, Larry Forney, and Zaid Abdo

MCAGUI: MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS R-GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI)

Bioinformatics (2012) 28 (16): 2198-2199

Jun. 2012

Wade K. Copeland, Vandhana Krishnan, Daneial Beck, Matt Settles, James A. Foster,

Kyu-Chul Cho, Mitch Day, Roxana Hickey, Ursel M.E. Schütte, Xia Zhou, Christopher

J. Williams, Larry J. Forney, and Zaid Abdo

AWARDS

Winter of Code: first place/33 teams

NCSoft Corp.

Apr. 2009

WWDC Student Scholarship Award

Apple Inc.

Jun. 2008

SCHOLARSHIPS International Tuition Scholarship University of Idaho 2007 - 2009

Computer Science Scholarship University of Idaho 2009

PALO ALTO, CA

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