Yun S. Song

Assistant Professor

Research Areas

• Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)
• Theory (THY)
• Applied Probability

Biography

Yun S. Song is an assistant professor in EECS and Statistics. He received the BS degrees in mathematics and physics from MIT, and a PhD in physics from Stanford University. After his PhD, he spent a year at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, where he decided to change fields. He became a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Statistics at Oxford, and started doing research in computational biology and mathematical population genetics. From 2004 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis in the Department of Computer Science, and the Section of Evolution and Ecology.

Recent honors and awards include an NIH Pathway to Independence Award K99/R00 (2006), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2008), a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (2008), and an NSF CAREER Award (2009).

Selected Publications

• A. Bhaskar and Y. S. Song, "Multi-locus match probability in a finite population: A fundamental difference between the Moran and Wright-Fisher models," Proceedings of ISMB 2009. Bioinformatics, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. i187-i195, June 2009.
• J. Yin, M. Jordan, and Y. S. Song, "Joint estimation of gene conversion rates and mean conversion tract lengths from population SNP data," Proceedings of ISMB 2009. Bioinformatics, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. i231-i239, June 2009.
• R. C. Griffiths, P. A. Jenkins, and Y. S. Song, "Importance sampling and the two-locus model with subdivided population structure," Advances in Applied Probability, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 473-500, June 2008.
• R. B. Lyngso, Y. S. Song, and J. Hein, "Accurate computation of likelihoods in the coalescent with recombination via parsimony," in Research in Computational Molecular Biology: Proc. 12th Annual Intl. Conf. (RECOMB 2008), M. Vingron and L. Wong, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4955, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp. 463-477.
• D. Gusfield, V. Bansal, V. Bafna, and Y. S. Song, "A decomposition theory for phylogenetic networks and incompatible characters," J. Computational Biology, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 1247-1272, Dec. 2007.
• Y. S. Song and M. Slatkin, "A graphical approach to multi-locus match probability computation: Revisiting the product rule," Theoretical Population Biology, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 96-110, Aug. 2007.
• Y. S. Song and J. S. Song, "Analytic computation of the expectation of the linkage disequilibrium coefficient r^2," Theoretical Population Biology, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 49-60, Feb. 2007.
• J. Li and Y. S. Song, "Open string instantons and relative stable morphisms (Invited Reprint)," in The Interaction of Finite-Type and Gromov-Witten Invariants (BIRS 2003), D. Auckly and J. Bryan, Eds., Geometry and Topology Monographs, Vol. 8, Berkeley, CA: Mathematical Sciences Publishers, 2006, pp. 49-72.
• S. Monni, J. S. Song, and Y. S. Song, "The Hurwitz enumeration problem of branched covers and Hodge integrals," J. Geometry and Physics, vol. 50, no. 1-4, pp. 223-256, April 2004.