Chief Scientist and Executive Professor & Director (CCSB)

Dr. Seungchan Kim is a Chief Scientist and Executive Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the CRI Center for Computational Systems Biology at the Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). Prior to this appointment, he was the Head of Biocomputing Unit and an Associate Professor at Integrated Cancer Genomics Division of Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). He was one of the founding faculty members of TGen, founded in 2002, by Dr. Trent, then-Scientific Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, leading computational systems biology research at the institute. He was also an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE) at the Arizona State University from 2004 till 2011. Dr. Kim received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Agriculture Engineering from the Seoul National University, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Texas A&M University. He also got his post-doctoral training at the Cancer Genetics Branch of National Human Genome Research Institute.

Dr. Kim’s research interests include: 1) mathematical modeling of genetic regulatory networks, 2) development of computational methods to analyze multitude of high throughput multi-omics data to identify disease biomarkers, and 3) computational models to diagnose patients or predict patient outcomes, for example, disease subtypes or drug response. His studies have had a large influence on the development of computational tools to study underlying mechanisms for cancer development and better understand the molecular mechanisms behind cancer biology and biological systems.

Current projects

Molecular and Genetic Analysis of Axillary Bud Dormancy and Outgrowth in Sorghum and Maize to Identify Shoot Branching Genes [more info] | [more info 2]
- USDA-NIFA (05/2022 – 04/2025)
- Tesfamichael Kebrom (PI); Role: co-PI
Engineering Methanotrophy for Carbon Capture and Utilization [more info]
- NTESS/Sandia Lab (01/14/2022 – 09/30/2024)
- Seungchan Kim (PI)
GET-PHIT: The PHIT Workforce Development Program: Creating a diverse and inclusive health information technology (IT) workforce in Texas [more info] | [more info 2] | [more info 3]
- Office of National Coordinator for HIT (ONC) via UT Health Science Center Houston (09/21/2021 – 09/20/2022)
- Eric Boerwinkle (PI); Role - co-I (PVAMU sub PI)
Physiological and Molecular Characterization of Tillering, Internode Elongation, and Stunting in the Tiller Inhibition (tin) Mutant Wheat [more info] | [more info 2]
- USDA-NIFA (01/2021 - 12/2022)
- Tesfamichael Kebrom (PI); Role: co-PI
Development of Classifiers for Novel Bladder Cancer Subtypes [more info]
- DOD/CDMRP (07/2019 - 06/2023)
- Woonyoung Choi & Seungchan Kim (MPI); Role: MPI
Noncoding RNA Biomarkers for Noninvasive and Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer [more info]
- NIH/NCI via City of Hope (09/2017 - 07/2023)
- Ajay Goel & Dan von Hoff (MPI); Role: co-I (PVAMU sub PI)