Koon Yin Kong

Education

  • Current Status: PhD candidate serving as graduate research assistant in Biomedical Informatics and Bio-imaging Laboratory (Bio-MIBLab) Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta
  • Master of Science (MS) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
  • Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Research Interests and Projects

  • Image Processing: Analysis of cellular and subcelluar images are usually done manually. While some tasks requires expert opinions like cancer grading and identify region of interest, other are tedious works like measuring and tracking microtubule plus-end. This project aims to design novel algorithms that automate these manual analysis tasks, and to develop applications that provide medical research with image analysis tools that is accurate, fast, reproducible, and easy to use.
  • Microtubule Dynamics: Microtubules is the target for many successful cancer chemotherapies. With imaging at subcellular level using confocal fluorescence microscopy, we are able to assess the effect of Taxol on individual microtubule. This project studies the effect of Taxol on microtubule dynamics and the biology of microtubule. It would help oncologists finding the optimal dosage level for desire effect as well as understanding how microtubule interact with each other and with other chemical or proteins.

Publications

  1. Kong KY, Marcus AI, Giannakakou P, Alberti C, and Wang MD, A two dimensional simulation of microtubule dynamics, International Conference on Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, (ITAB), 2008, Page(s): 461-462
  2. Kong KY, Sharma Y, Raza SH, Chen Z, Muller S, and Wang MD; Using spiral intensity profile to quantify head and neck cancer, 8th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, (BIBE), 2008, Page(s): 1°V6

Current and previous students

  • Hassan Khan
  • Tan Wau
  • Nikhar Kinger

Experience

  • Teaching assistant and lab intstructor for digital signal processing at Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Internship at Siemens Corporate Research