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The site serves faculty, research labs, collaborators, graduate-program readers, biotech recruiters, and hiring managers who need to quickly understand Yun C. Sawa’s research trajectory, technical range, and professional credibility. They are likely scanning under time pressure and need clear evidence of computational biology, long-read genomics, oncology, bioinformatics, lab experience, and communication ability.

Product Purpose

This personal academic portfolio presents Yun as a precise, technically capable, and ambitious computational biology researcher and UCI MCSB Ph.D. student. Success means a visitor can quickly understand Yun’s current work on long-read genomics, repeat-rich genome structure, telomeres, spatial or single-cell analysis, and translational cancer research, then find supporting evidence through experience, publications, writing, and contact links without feeling trapped in a long resume.

Brand Personality

Precise, technical, ambitious. The voice should feel research-driven and credible, with enough warmth to make the person behind the credentials clear. The site should communicate momentum and depth without becoming loud or promotional.

Anti-references

Dense CV dump. Avoid pages that read like pasted resume sections, long undifferentiated bullet lists, generic academic-template defaults, flashy startup marketing, or casual blog styling that weakens research credibility.

Design Principles

• Lead with fit: make Yun’s current UCI Ph.D. research focus, technical strengths, and career direction visible before long chronology.
• Curate evidence: use CV details, publications, projects, and posts as proof points rather than undifferentiated lists.
• Keep technical confidence readable: preserve domain specificity while improving sentence clarity, hierarchy, and scan paths.
• Show range without clutter: connect long-read genomics, algorithm development, pipelines, wet-lab, clinical, and data-analysis experience into a coherent research story.
• Make contact easy: admissions, faculty, labs, and recruiters should quickly find identity, location, email, and professional links.

Accessibility & Inclusion

Target WCAG AA for text contrast, keyboard navigation, link visibility, and responsive reading. Preserve readable body text, avoid motion that gates content, and keep pages usable for visitors scanning on mobile or assistive technology.