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Curriculum Vitae

Yun S. Song

Education
Ph.D., 2001 Physics, Stanford University
Advisor: Eva Silverstein
Thesis: Topological String Theory and Enumerative Geometry
B.S., 1997 Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., 1996 Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisors: Daniel Z. Freedman and Alan H. Guth
Thesis: Differential Renormalization of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Superspace
Academic Positions
2010 -- Associate Professor of EECS and Statistics, UC Berkeley
2007 -- 2010 Assistant Professor of EECS and Statistics, UC Berkeley
2006 -- 2007 Postdoctoral Researcher, Section of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
Supervisor: Charles H. Langley
2004 -- 2006 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, UC Davis
Supervisor: Dan Gusfield
2002 -- 2004 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Supervisor: Jotun Hein
2001 -- 2002 Visiting Scholar, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Awards and Honors
2013 Jim and Donna Gray Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley
2010 Kavli Frontiers Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
2009 -- 2014 NSF CAREER Award
2008 -- 2013 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
2008 -- 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
2006 -- 2010 NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)
1997 -- 2000 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
1996 Orloff Award, MIT (for best senior thesis in physics)
1996 Phi Beta Kappa
1994 Sigma Pi Sigma
Editorial Board
2010 -- Associate Editor of Genetics
2013 -- Associate Editor of Theoretical Population Biology