Dr. Dong‐Guk Shin is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the founding Director for the Bioinformatics and Bio‐Computing Institute of the University of Connecticut. Dr. Shin's research specialties include data mining, database interoperability, knowledge discovery from databases, graphical user interface design, and bioinformatics. In the bioinformatics area his research particularly focuses on meta‐analyses of gene expression data from high‐throughput techniques such as microarray, microRNA, Chip‐Seq and RNA‐Seq.

Dr. Shin has been leading a number of research projects related to Bioinformatics through funding from NIH, NSF and DOE. Dr. Shin has served numerous NSF and NIH bioinformatics study sections. In 2000 he was an invited speaker in National Research Council Bioinformatics Workshop, organized by National Academy of Sciences. In 1999, Dr. Shin was the recipient of the University of Connecticut's Chancellor's Information Technology Award. Dr. Shin holds Ph.D. (1985) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.

 

Dong‐Guk Shin   PhD & Professor

Computer Science & Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA

Email: shin@engr.uconn.edu