John Kim, PhD

John has spent more than a decade building data and computational systems for genomics, drug discovery, and AI-driven biology. At Foresite Labs, he leads bioinformatics, focusing on the platforms and agentic workflows that let scientific teams move from hypothesis to result at scale.

During his earlier tenure at Foresite Labs, John built a distributed scientific computing platform that ran millions of jobs and supported billions of genetic associations, and served as infrastructure lead for Sestina, TenSixteen, and Xaira Therapeutics. At Xaira, he built and led the data and bioinformatics engineering team, connecting AI-driven protein design with laboratory experiments and model-training workflows. Most recently, as Senior Staff Data Engineer at Biohub, he built multimodal training-data systems and helped define federated data infrastructure for the Virtual Biology Initiative, a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, NIH, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and Meta.

Before rejoining Foresite, John held roles at Biohub, Kepler AI, Xaira Therapeutics, GRAIL, and Illumina. He was a founding team member at GRAIL, where he led cell-free RNA bioinformatics and authored the company’s first patent. He holds a PhD in Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics from UC Santa Cruz.