👋 Hi, I’m Jeongho Chae

Undergraduate Researcher @ UNC Chapel Hill (Furey Lab)

🔬 Research Interests

I work at the intersection of computational biology and translational research, with a focus on:

• Chromatin accessibility, regulatory genomics, and ATAC-seq–based profiling
• Statistical & algorithmic methods for cell-type deconvolution
• Wavelet-based feature extraction and denoising for biological signals
• Translational applications in immune and inflammatory diseases (e.g., IBD)
• (Interest) Machine learning and AI-based approaches for biological inference

📝 Publications

📌 WAD: A wavelet-based linear programming method using L1-minimal reconstruction loss for accessible chromatin data deconvolution

Jeongho Chae, Benjamin McMichael, Terrence S. Furey
A wavelet-based linear programming framework for accurate and interpretable cell-type deconvolution of bulk ATAC-seq data.
Preprint, bioRxiv (2025)
[Preprint] · [Code]

🎓 Education

• Korea University — B.S. in Life Sciences & Computer Science (2020-2026)
• UNC Chapel Hill — Exchange Research Student (2025)

👨‍💻 Experience

• Undergraduate Research Assistant — Terry Furey Lab @ UNC (2025–Present)
• Research Manager — Mankwang Corp., Start-up (2024)

📫 Contact

• 📧 chaejh9752@korea.ac.kr
• 📧 chaejh@unc.edu

🚴‍♂️ Outside of Research

I’m also an ultra-cyclist — I biked 400 miles across South Korea on a cycling expedition.
During military service, I gained 17 kg through consistent training and eventually ranked 1st out of 400 soldiers in the physical fitness test.

I believe in persistence, discipline, and incremental progress in research and in life.