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Sunmin Ahn

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Director, Engineering and Manufacturing Operations at Illumina
📍 United States

Sunmin Ahn is the Director of Engineering and Manufacturing Operations at Illumina, leading teams in reagent manufacturing and QC. With a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University, she is an expert in high-throughput assay development, consumable manufacturing, technology transfer, and scaling up production for genomics technologies like the NovaSeq X.

During her PhD, Sunmin was a GK12 Fellow, an experience she found incredibly rewarding. She taught general and AP chemistry to students in an urban high school, aiming to motivate more young people to engage with science and pursue higher education.

Unique fact: As a research fellow, she taught AP chemistry and led weekly science demos for high school students.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Director, Engineering and Manufacturing Operations
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
United States
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Consumable Manufacturing
Leads manufacturing, QC, and engineering for consumables and played a core role in launching the NovaSeq X consumables.
Genomics Technology
Her entire career at Illumina is focused on developing and manufacturing the core technologies for genomic sequencing.
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Career

Work history

2024
Director, Engineering and Manufacturing Operations
Illumina
2020 - 2024
Principal Product Engineer, NPI
Illumina
2016 - 2020
Manager, Engineering
Illumina
11-2013 - 2016
Senior Engineer, Process Development and Transfer
Illumina
2012 - 2013
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Boston University
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Education
2007 - 2012
PhD
Boston University
2005 - 2007
MS
Boston University
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