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Stephen Hwang

              

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Stephen is passionate about building AI-driven solutions that make data more intelligent and accessible. He has designed and deployed AI/ML applications for semantic classification, data harmonization, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). His work includes optimizing LLM-powered chatbots, developing hybrid search solutions that combine full-text and vector search, and building scalable FastAPI interfaces for AI-driven data platforms. He focuses on creating reliable, high-performing AI systems that are efficient, scalable, and built with privacy and security in mind.

Interests

  • Applied AI/ML
  • Big data
  • Data engineering
  • Cloud computing

Education

  • MSc Bioinformatics

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

  • BSc Bioinformatics

    Loyola University, Chicago, IL

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) MongoDB Database Administrator MongoDB Developer (Associate)

Skills

Programming languages Python, R/Shiny, JavaScript, SQL, Perl
Databases MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, BigQuery, BigTable, Snowflake, Redshift, EMR
Data Engineering Kafka, Cloud Composer (Airflow), Google Dataproc (Spark), Pub/Sub, SNS/SQS
Data sharing FastAPI, Flask, Google Looker (Data Studio), Tableau, ggplot, matplotlib, Prometheus
DevOps & MLOps Git, Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

Published work

Vaz, M., Hwang, S. Y., ... Baylin, S. B. (2017). Chronic cigarette smoke-induced epigenomic changes precede sensitization of bronchial epithelial cells to single-step transformation by KRAS mutations. Cancer Cell, 32, 360–376. doi:10.1016/j.ccell.2017.08.006 [PubMed]

  • Designed and created novel visualizations for publication and exploratory analysis, including unsupervised clustering techniques used for samply quality control.
  • Plot types include density plots, scatterplots, heatmaps, bar & line graphs.

Gern, J. E., Jackson, D. J., Lemanske, R. F., Seroogy, C. M., Tachinardi, U., Craven, M., Hwang, S. Y., ... Bacharier, L. B. (2019). The Children's Respiratory and Environmental Workgroup (CREW) Birth Cohort Consortium: Design, methods, and study population. Respiratory Research, 20(1), 115. doi:10.1186/s12931-019-1088-9 [PubMed][Full PDF]

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