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Sunwoo Baek

sunwoob2@illinois.edu | (217)-898-6367

EDUCATION

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign August 2021-Present

AWARDS / HONORS

James Scholar Honors August 2022-Present

Bronze, KSEF International Awards December 2020

Excellent Youth Scholars Award, Korea Scholar's Conference for Youth (KSCY) September 2020

Gold Medal, International Genetically Engineered Machine (IGEM) Competition November 2019

National Mayor’s Award, 4th Youth Creative Convergence Essay Competition August 2019

Ambassador’s Award, Diplomatic International Forum of Seoul (DIFOS) August 2019

SKILLS

Advanced: Java, C

Familiar: Python, C++

RELEVANT COURSES

Intro to Computer Science

● Learned Java skills

PH125.2x: Data Science: Visualization December 2020

PH125.1x: Data Science: R Basics (HarvardX) December 2020

DEV276x: Learn to Program in Java edX Certificate (Microsoft) August 2019

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Mentor, Reaching and Educating America’s Chemists of Tomorrow (REACT) September 2022-Present

● Guide chemistry experiments to 3rd, 4th, and middle school students.

Facilitator, Girls Who Code (GWC) September 2022-Present

● Help highschool students to engage in computer science and teach introductory coding projects

Web Analytics Director, Positive Pre-Meds March 2022-Present

● Created a website pertaining to Positive Pre-Meds; resolved any technical difficulties that arise during

meetings/events or with documents/forms pertaining to Positive Pre-Meds


Member, Women in Computer Science Club September 2021-Present

● Dedicated to pursuing a career interest in computer science

● Achieved education of network services and workshops

Member, American Medical Women’s Association at UIUC October 2021-March 2022

● Engaged in the organization’s events

● Achieved education regarding the scope of the medical field

● Advanced in finding volunteer and research opportunities with the assistance of my mentor

WORK EXPERIENCES

Intern, Holic Sound Company June 2020-August 2022

● Managed the business bank account

● Issued tax invoices

● Recorded finance on accounting programs

Intern, Embassy of Mexico Summer 2019

● Assisted consular of the Embassy of Mexico

● Managed documents of visa and passports

RESEARCH

Research Paper, siRNA directed silencing of TFAM decreased the number of cancer colonies in gastric cancer

cells September 2020

● Researched and examined the effect of TFAM on cancer colony formation in MKN45 and SNU-NCC-19.

● Won reward of Korea Scholar's Conference for Youth (KSCY)

● Performed lab experiment (agarose electrophoresis, PCR, cell maintenance)

Research Paper, Down-regulation of CD44 Inhibits Wnt/β-catenin Mediated Cancer Cell Migration and

Invasion in Gastric Cancer March 2020

● Conducted topic of research

● Examined and analyzed the experiments (agarose electrophoresis, PCR, cell maintenance)

● Published on Journal Emerging Investigators (JEI) of Harvard University

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