Sergey Koren

Sergey Koren is an American bioinformatician who is an associate investigator in the genome informatics section at the National Human Genome Research Institute.

After completing his M.S., Koren joined the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) as a bioinformatics engineer under the supervision of Granger Sutton. During his three years at JCVI, he contributed to the development of the Celera Assembler, which has been used to assemble both the Drosophila melanogaster and human genomes. In 2023, the Partnership for Public Service named, Koren, Arang Rhie, Adam M. Phillippy and the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium as finalists for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal in the field of Science, Technology and Environment for "conducting the first complete assembly of the human genome".