PROGRAMME

Dr Yoon Hong Choi is Lead Vaccine Preventable Infectious Diseases Modeller at UK Health Security Agency, London, UK. He has contributed to various modelling and cost-effectiveness projects of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases to provide scientific evidence to the Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation and DHSC regarding the UK vaccination programme policies related to MMR, Pertussis, Human Papillomavirus and Streptococcus pneumoniae.  

Professor Jeehyun Lee received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Iowa State University in 2001 under the supervision of Dr. Max Gunzburger. She worked for the MRSEC (materials research science and engineering center) at Carnegie Mellon University from 2001 to 2004 as a research associate. She has been a professor in Mathematics at Yonsei University since 2004 and joined CSE(computational science and engineering) in 2008. Her research area is numerical analysis and scientific computing involving control and optimization, mathematical biology, and epidemiology. She has been collaborating with medical doctors and policy makers on developing mathematical models to predict dynamics, to asses intervention strategies incㅣuding economic evaluation, and to derive optimal control of various diseases.

Youbin Oh is currently pursuing a second master’s degree in Food Quality Management at Wageningen University & Research, with a user-oriented focus on digital food environments. She previously earned a master’s degree with distinction in Culinary Science and Food Service Management from Kyung Hee University in Korea and published research on consumer perceptions and purchase intentions regarding e-commerce fresh food delivery packaging. 

She also brings six years of industry experience in HR and business planning at a logistics company, including work related to cold chain business planning. Through this experience, she developed practical insight into the broader food system and a growing interest in how digital innovation shapes food-related decision-making. She is currently researching how the technological and informational qualities of AI-driven personalized dietary advice influence consumer trust and behavioral intentions. She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of food science, consumer behavior, and digital innovation.

Youn-Hee Lim is an environmental epidemiologist and biostatistician whose work bridges advanced statistical modeling, causal inference, and artificial intelligence (AI)–enabled data science. She leads interdisciplinary research that integrates high-resolution exposure assessment with large-scale linkage of nationwide health and administrative registers to uncover environmental determinants of disease and to identify vulnerable populations.
Her research provides strong epidemiologic evidence that long-term exposure to air pollution and traffic noise increases the risk of major cardiometabolic diseases and psychiatric disorders, with particular emphasis on ageing populations and other susceptible groups. Using AI-based spatiotemporal modeling, machine learning algorithms, and scalable data integration frameworks, she enhances exposure prediction, risk stratification, and causal interpretation. She further investigates underlying biological mechanisms, including systemic inflammation, impaired lung function, and vascular and autonomic dysfunction, contributing to the advancement of AI-driven environmental health research.

Dr Seung Seo Lee is Associate Professor in Chemical Biology/Medicinal Chemistry, conducting cutting-edge research projects on antimicrobial resistance and glycoenzymes. Dr Lee obtained his BSc and MSc in chemistry from Seoul National University in South Seoul, Korea. He then worked in the pharmaceutical industry before starting his doctoral study in chemistry at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He obtained his PhD under the supervision of Professor Stephen G Withers, studying the reaction mechanism of glycan processing enzymes. After postdoctoral studies at University of Cambridge (Prof. Florian Hollfelder),  University of Alberta (Prof. David R Bundle) and University of Oxford (Prof. Benjamin G Davis), he was appointed as an academic staff at University of Southampton, where he has since been working.

Dr. Hyun-Woo Jeong received his B.S. (2005) and Ph.D. (2010) in Life Science from POSTECH, South Korea. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at Seoul National University (2012) and at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Germany (2018). In 2021, he was appointed as a Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, where he currently serves as a Lab Head.
His research focuses on single-cell multiomics and precision diagnostics, aiming to elucidate cellular heterogeneity and disease mechanisms through integrative, data-driven approaches. His work seeks to advance next-generation strategies for disease characterization and early detection.