Dr. Byung-Kwan Cho is a professor at the department of biological sciences, KAIST. Before joining the KAIST, he has been a project scientist in the Palsson lab at University of California San Diego for seven years. He completed his Ph.D. in the molecular biotechnology and biomaterials laboratory at the Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea). His research projects focus on the systems and synthetic biology of living organisms. To this end, his lab has used the high-throughput data generation platforms such as next-generation sequencing.