Meet the Team

Introducing our highly motivated, persistent and hardworking team members who will be the next generation of nutrition, epidemiology and public health professionals!

Current Members

Siheun Song | 송시흔

Siheun is a 1st-year MS student in the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University where she earned her BS. She joined the CliNE Lab in August 2023. Leveraging large-scale data collected from a university-affiliated medical center, she currently leads statistical analyses to generate scientifically rigorous epidemiologic evidence on dietary risk factors for colorectal cancer development in the context of South Korea.
ruashsh@skku.edu

Minkyoung Jeong | 정민경

Minkyoung is finishing up her last year of undergraduate studies in German Language and Literature (dual degree in Food Science and Biotechnology) at Sungkyunkwan University. She is currently enrolled in a BS, MS and PhD combined program in the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology. Since she joined the lab in December 2023, revisiting a huge body of literature accrued as of 2000, she has been courageously leading a systematic review on branched-chain amino acids to help re-establish their standards for the 2025 Dietary Reference Intakes for Koreans.
min5569@skku.edu

Jaemin Ho | 호재민

Jaemin is wrapping up her last year of undergraduate studies in Sociology (dual degree in Food Science and Biotechnology) at Sungkyunkwan University. She joined the lab in June 2024, pursuing a BS and MS combined program in the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology. She works on the construction of major diet quality indexes using large-scale data collected from university-affiliated medical centers.
favor6371@g.skku.edu

Jiyeon Hahn | 한지연

Jiyeon is a postbachelor research assistant at the CliNE lab. She is an alum of the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology and joined the lab in August 2024. Her perseverant input to better construct and stabilize the data analysis infrastructure has been extremely valuable to the team. She works on retrospective cohort data collected from a university-affiliated medical center to examine the role of diet in colorectal adenoma development in the young, South Korean population.
jyhahn87@gmail.com

Jeongyun Yang | 양정윤

Jeongyun is a 1st-year MS student in the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University. She joined the lab in August 2023 and received her BS in Food Engineering from Dankook University. With a research interest in elucidating dietary risk factors for chronic diseases, her extensive training in epidemiology and biostatistics is well underway, while helping with many ongoing projects in the lab.
yangjy7294@skku.edu