Sungsik Kong

I am interested in developing and understanding methods for inferring phylogenetic networks and hybrid speciation using genomic data under the coalescent model. I was a postdoctoral fellow at The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University, mentored by Dr. Elizabeth Allman (University of Alaska-Fairbanks) and Dr. Scott Edwards (Harvard University). I was a postdoctoral research associate in the Solis-Lemus Lab at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I received my Ph.D. in Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State University advised by Dr. Laura Kubatko. I conferred B.Sc. and M.Sc. at University of Toronto, Canada, where I studied evolutionary biology and phylogenetics, advised by Dr. Robert Murphy. I also studied the evolution of Primate behavior with Dr. Deborah McLennan. Moreover, I worked as a researcher at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea, with Drs. Yikweon Jang and Jae Chun Choe.