Yejin Kim

Dr. Kim is an Assistant Professor at McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from POSTECH, South Korea, where she focused on machine learning for healthcare. Her current research interests include counterfactual machine learning and human-centered machine learning for healthcare. She has also been recognized for her outstanding contributions to research and received several awards from NIH R01, Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (HD4A award) and being selected as the top 10% most cited PLoS One paper. Her work has been covered in public media outlets such as CNN, NPR, and ScienceDaily. She has served on various grant review panels and committees, including the National Institute of Health, UK Research and Innovation, Luxembourg National Science Foundation. She will contribute to this interdisciplinary ReCARDO team’s success by providing expertise in developing AI/ML models for Alzheimer’s disease NIA-funded cohort studies.