Yejin Kim
Scholar

Yejin Kim

Google Scholar ID: 3XptxD8AAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
Data ScienceMachine learning for HealthcareBiomedical Informatics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,441
 
H-index
18
 
i10-index
28
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
6
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Promoted to Tenured Associate Professor in Sep 2025
  • Top Five performer in IQVIA’s AIntibody Challenge (2025) among 166 participants from academia, biotech, pharma, and big tech
  • Awarded NIH R01 grant ($3.9M, 2024–2029) as PI for data-driven disease subtyping in Alzheimer’s disease
  • Awarded NIH R01 grant ($4M, 2023–2028) as PI on federated learning for multi-site clinical data
  • Ranked 2nd in the International DREAM Challenge for Drug Repurposing (2020)
  • Awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Data 4 Action grant as PI (2019)
  • 2016 PLoS One paper recognized as Top 10% most cited
  • Vaccine and Alzheimer’s study covered by NPR, CNN, and ScienceDaily (2020)
  • Invited talks/tutorials at major conferences including PepTalk 2025, The Web Conference 2023 Health Day, AAIC 2020
  • Served as grant review panelist for UKRI, Fonds de recherche du Québec & Israel Ministry, and Luxembourg National Science Foundation
  • Invited to testify before U.S. Department of Health & Human Services on vaccine and Alzheimer’s research (2022)