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Yejin Kim
Google Scholar ID: 3XptxD8AAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
Data Science
Machine learning for Healthcare
Biomedical Informatics
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1,441
H-index
18
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28
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20
Co-authors
6
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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)
Co-authors
6 total
Xiaoqian Jiang
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth
Hwanjo Yu
POSTECH
Co-author 3
Jing Tang
Associate professor, University of Helsinki
Jimeng Sun
Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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