[1] She completed a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and cell biology at University of Chicago.
[2] As a graduate student in Douglas K. Bishop's laboratory, Hong worked on the biochemical characterization of the yeast meiotic Dmc1 protein.
[3] Hong was a biocuration scientist and head of scientific curation at the Saccharomyces Genome Database at Stanford University School of Medicine.
As the director of genomics at AncestryDNA, she leads a team of population geneticists, computational biologists, statistical geneticists, and bioinformatic analysts to she develop algorithms and integrate genomic data.
She develops data strategies to maximize value & insights for biotech and life science companies, bridging clinical, research, and real world data.