Faculty Biography

Byung-Jun Yoon, PhD

Professor
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, USA

Scientist & Interim Deputy Chair
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Department
Computing and Data Sciences (CDS) Directorate
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY, USA

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer (CSO)
Post Tenebras Lux, Inc.

Brookhaven National Lab (BNL): https://www.bnl.gov/staff/byoon
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KxPLjXkAAAAJ
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9328-1101
GitHub: https://github.com/bjyoontamu
Objective-based UQ: https://objectiveuq.org

Short Biography

Dr. Byung-Jun Yoon received his B.S. degree from Seoul National University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology, all in Electrical Engineering. Since 2008, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he is currently a Professor. Dr. Yoon holds a joint appointment at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he serves as the interim Deputy Chair of the AI Department, Computing and Data Sciences (CDS) Directorate. He received the NSF CAREER Award, Best Paper Awards at the 9th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference and the 12th Annual MCBIOS Conference, and the SLATE Teaching Excellence Award from Texas A&M University. Dr. Yoon’s main research interests lie in AI for Science, optimal experimental design (OED), objective-based uncertainty quantification (UQ), and decision-making under uncertainty. He is actively working on the development of these methods and their application to various scientific domains, including the life sciences and materials science.

Research Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for Science
  • Optimal Experimental Design & Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
  • Bioinformatics & Computational Network Biology

Education

Experience

 Honors & Awards

  • 2015: Best Paper Award, 12th Annual MCBIOS Conference.
  • 2012: Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. National Science Foundation (NSF), USA.
  • 2011: Best Paper Award, 9th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC).
  • 2009: Student Led Award for Teaching Excellence (SLATE), Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX, USA.
  • 2004: Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA.
  • 2003: Best Paper Award (2nd place), 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
  • 2001: Killgore Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
  • 2001: Doctoral Scholarship, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), Seoul, Korea.

Professional Activities

Professional Society Membership/Service

  • ACM SIGBio, Treasurer, 2021 July – 2027 June
  • IEEE, Senior Member, 2011 – present

Editorial Board

Guest Editor

  • Patterns, Lead Guest Editor, Special Collection on “Accelerating Scientific Discoveries Through Data-driven Innovations”, 2023
  • EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Systems Engineering Approaches for Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Computational Biology, 2013-2014.
  • Journal of Biological Systems (JBS), Guest Editor, Special Issue on Genomic Signal Processing (GSP), 2012-2013.
  • EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Guest Editor, Special Issue on Sequence Analysis and Synthesis, 2011-2012.
  • EURASIP Journal of Advances in Signal Processing, Guest Editor, Special Issue on Genomic Signal Processing, 2010-2011.

Conference Organization

  • Finance Chair, 16th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2025), Philadelphia, PA, 2025.
  • General Chair, 15th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2024), Shenzhen, China, 2024.
  • General Chair, 14th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2023), Houston, TX, 2023.
  • Data Hackathon Committee Co-Chair, First IEEE Healthcare Summit (IHS), 2021.
  • Program Chair, The 6th International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2019), Niaga Falls, NY, 2019.
  • Program Chair, The 5th International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2018), Washington, DC, 2018.
  • Program Chair, The 4th International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2017), Boston, MA, 2017.
  • Program Chair, The 3rd International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2016), Seattle, WA, 2016.
  • Program Chair, The 2nd International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2015), Atlanta, GA, 2015.
  • Program Chair, International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control (CNB-MAC 2014), Newport Beach, CA, 2014.
  • Finance Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), Houston, TX, 2013.
  • Technical Program Chair, IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Symposium on Bio Signal Processing, Austin, TX, 2013.
  • Publication Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2010.

Mailing Address

Texas A&M University
Electrical & Computer Engineering
3128 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843, USA

Physical Location

Wisenbaker Engineering Building (WEB) #205L
College Station, TX 77843, USA

Email Address

byungjunyoon at tamu.edu (only bold letters)

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