About Me

I am an Associate Professor and Interim Associate Chair in the Department of Computer Science at Saint Louis University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. I am also a core faculty member of the Graduate Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and an Adjunct Professor at the AI Graduate School at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in South Korea. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 2012, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Yonsei University in South Korea. Before joining academia, I worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Samsung SDS and held postdoctoral and research positions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

I lead the Ahn Lab (BioHPC Lab), where our research focuses on developing innovative software tools to analyze big data — principally in biological, health, and biomedical domains — using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced computational techniques on High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems, including supercomputers, GPU clusters, and cloud platforms. My work spans bioinformatics, metagenomics, single-cell RNA-seq analysis, and deep learning for biomedical applications.

As Lead PI of the NSF CC* ModernCARE Award ($630K), I have built a GPU computing cluster at SLU to advance AI-driven research and education. My research has been supported by a diverse range of funding sources, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), industry partners such as Nestlé Purina PetCare, and international agencies including the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of the Republic of Korea. In total, I have been awarded over $7 million in grant funding, with approximately $2 million as PI or co-PI.

I currently serve as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Microbiomes and have served on technical program committees for ACM-BCB and IEEE-BIBM. I am a member of ACM, IEEE, and ISCB. For more details, please see my publications, Google Scholar, or CV.

Tae-Hyuk (Ted) Ahn, Ph.D.

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