News

May 2026

Invited to talk at PEGS 2026 about AI-based antibody design

PEGS 2026 ↗
April 2026

Our team's study on vaccination and Alzheimer's was featured in Viva Longevity channel

Viva Longevity ↗
Sep 2025

Dr. Kim was promoted to Tenured Associate Professor!

Aug 2025

Top Five performers in AIntibody Challenge organized by IQVIA Laboratories with 166 participants from academia, biotech, pharma, and big tech companies.

AIntibody Challenge ↗
Jan 2025

Gave a tutorial on "AI-guided Antibody Discovery" at PepTalk 2025, San Diego

Dec 2024

So honored to be featured in UTHealth Insider news.

UTHealth Insider ↗
Oct 2024

Awarded NIH Research Project Grant R01 as PI ($3.9M for five years) for data-driven disease subtyping for Alzheimer's disease.

Oct 2024

Gave a talk, "AI for Computational Phenotyping and Predicting Accelerated Aging," at UTHealth Houston Neuroscience Research Center and Aging Research Symposium.

Jan 2024

Gave a talk "AI/ML to Identify Personalized Treatment Effect from Data" at the Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine and Healthcare Workshop by McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth Houston.

Nov 2023

Awarded NIH Research Project Grant R01 as PI ($4M for five years) on federated learning for multiple clinical data.

Aug 2023

Our work, CancerGPT, was invited for a talk at PathAI.

CancerGPT ↗
May 2023

Gave an invited talk at The Web Conference 2023 Health Day.

The Web Conference 2023 ↗
Mar 2023

Gave an invited talk at BERD Core, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, and Data Science Core at SBMI.

Mar 2023

Honored to serve as a grant review panelist for United Kingdom Research and Innovation.

Nov 2022

Served as a grant review panelist for AI in Healthcare (Fonds de recherche du Quebec & Ministry of Innovation, Science & Technology - Israel).

Nov 2022

Gave a talk at AI in Health Conference, organized by Rice Ken Kennedy Institute.

AI in Health Conference ↗
Sep 2022

Our vaccine and Alzheimer's study was invited to testify before the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

Jun 2022

Our flu vaccination and Alzheimer's study was covered by ScienceDaily.

ScienceDaily ↗
Jan 2021

Top 10% most cited PLoS One article in 2016.

Paper ↗
Jul 2020

Selected as an AAIC 2020 Highlighted Poster.

Jul 2020

Our team's vaccine and Alzheimer's study was covered by NPR and CNN.

NPR ↗
Apr 2020

Ranked 2nd in the International DREAM Challenge for Drug Repurposing.

DREAM Challenge ↗
Jan 2020

Served as a grant review panelist for Luxembourg National Science Foundation.

FNR ↗
Sep 2019

Initiated the SBMI Datathon Series as an organizer.

SBMI Datathon ↗
Sep 2019

Awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Data 4 Action grant as PI.