Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION


2007-Present University of Oxford, St Cross College, Department of Statistics, Oxord, UK
DPhil Candidate in Statistics
Wrote two new protein loop structure prediction methods (FREAD and MECHANO)
Built a new antibody complementarity determining region prediction method based on FREAD
Developed a theoretical model of loop stretch
2005-2006 King's College London, Department of Mathematics, London, UK
MSc in Theoretical Physics
Mechanics, Relativity and Quantum Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Advanced General Relativity, Supersymmetry, Point Particles and String Theory, Manifolds, Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, Low Dimensional Quantum Field Theory
Dissertation: Quantum and Classical Random Walks
1998-2000, 2003-2005 Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
BSc in Physics
Graduation Exams: Top in General Physics and Specialised Topics (Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetism and Statistical Mechanics)
BA in Chinese Philosophy
Dissertation: A Comparative Study of Dong Zhongshu and Wang Chong's Thoughts and Significance in Modern Times
BA in Philosophy
Dissertation: The Principle of Verification and Physical Concepts: Center on Logical Positivists' Analysis of Entropy

WORK EXPERIENCE


Doctoral Training Centre, Oxford, UK

Teaching assistant and demonstrator
Oct 2010 Introduction to Programming - Perl, Java and C
Jan 2010, Jan 2009 Structural Biology
Dec 2008 Biophysics

Bioinformatics, Department of Continuing Education, Oxford, UK

Teaching assistant
Feb 2009 MODELLER and Homology modelling
Oct 2008-Dec 2008 Perl for Bioinformatics

Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, South Korea

Research assistant
Sep 2006-Sep 2007 CASP, Structural alignment, Sequence alignment and Data analysis

SELECTED CONFERENCES AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS


Jul 2010 3D-Sig and ISMB 2010 in Boston: Presented a poster on ConFREAD, a novel method to predict antibody complementarity determining regions
Jan 2010 Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS): Presented a seminar on antibody complementarity determining region prediction using FREAD
Oct 2009 Blundell Group, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge University: Gave a seminar on protein loop structure prediction accompanied with contact information
Jun 2009 3D-Sig and ISMB/ECCB 2009 in Stockholm: Presented a poster on FREAD, a database search algorithm for protein loop structure prediction
Dec 2008 Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC): Presented a seminar on protein loop structure prediction using a database search method
Apr 2008 BioSysBio 2008 in London: Presented a poster entitled "Improving loop prediction by improving loop selection"

PUBLICATIONS


JOURNAL


Yoon-Dong Yu, Yoonjoo Choi, Yik-Ying Teo and Andrew Dalby (2010), Developing stochastic models for spatial inference: bacterial chemotaxis, PLoS One, e10464
Yoonjoo Choi and Charlotte M. Deane (2010), FREAD revisited: Accurate loop structure prediction using a database search algorithm, Proteins, 78(6):1431-1440

SOFTWARE


Yoonjoo Choi and Charlotte M. Deane, FREAD: a database search protein loop structure prediction
Yoonjoo Choi, Yoon-Dong Yu, Wonho Lee and Andrew Dalby, MESMAX: a bacterial chemotaxis simulation algorithm

HONOURS


2007-2010 Deparmental Bursary (Department of Statistics, Oxford University)
College Scholarship (St Cross College, Oxford University)
University Hardship Funding (Oxford University)
2003 The 1st Contest of Philosophical Debate (Sponsored by UNESCO)
The bronze medal in the Moderator category
1998-2000 University Scholarship (Sungkyunkwan University)

SOCIAL ACTIVITY


2010-Present Oxfam GB: member
2008-2009 Oxford University Korea Society: Vice president
2006-2010 Mensa Korea: Advisor of International Affairs Committee
Mar 2004-Aug 2005 Mensa Korea: head of International Affairs Committee
1998 Department of Philosophy, Sungkyunkwan University: Representative of the 1st year

MISCELLANEOUS


Apr 2000-Jun 2002 Military Service: Infantry soldier at the forward edge of the battle area and General Outpost (GOP)

COMPUTING SKILLS


Programming Skills in Python (with Numpy), Perl, C, C++, PHP, Web developing and SQL database


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