Junyoung Kim

Junyoung Kim

Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Informatics
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
UTHealth Houston

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston, advised by Dr. Kirk Roberts. My research interests lie at the intersection of clinical natural language processing, large language models, and trustworthy AI, with a particular focus on reliable question answering over electronic health records.

Previously, I conducted research at Boston Children's Hospital and Columbia University, focusing on large language models for healthcare, rare disease diagnosis, and genetic testing workflows. I hold an M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University.

Outside of research, I enjoy playing basketball and exploring new restaurants and cuisines.

Research Interests

Publications

Assessing the utility of large language models for phenotype-driven gene prioritization in the diagnosis of rare genetic disease
J. Kim, K. Wang, C. Weng, C. Liu.
The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2024.
Deep learning for rare disease: A scoping review
J. Lee, C. Liu, J. Kim, et al.
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2022.
PRICE: A personalized recursive intelligent cost effectiveness analysis framework for rare disease diagnosis
M. Nie, Y. Yao, J. Kim, C. Liu.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2025.
FHIR-AgentEval: A modular sandbox for benchmarking clinical LLM agents with an evaluation of memory-augmented configurations
Y. Mokssit, K. Ravi, M. Nie, J. Kim, C. Liu.
Research Square, 2026. (Preprint)

Manuscripts Under Review

Evaluating Retrieval-Enabled Large Language Models for Genetic Testing Insurance Workflows: A Stage-Wise Assessment of Retrieval and Reliability
J. Kim, K. Ravi, A. Afyouni, C. Liu.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) — Under Review.

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Education

UTHealth Houston
Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics, 2026–Present

Columbia University
M.A. in Statistics, 2023

Chung-Ang University
B.A. in Applied Statistics, Minor in Economics, 2021

Research Experience

UTHealth Houston
Graduate Research Assistant | 2026–Present
Advisor: Dr. Kirk Roberts
Clinical NLP, multi-hop question answering, and agentic AI for healthcare.

Boston Children's Hospital
Computational Research Assistant | 2025–2026
CliGenAI Lab | PI: Dr. Cong Liu
LLM agents, retrieval-augmented generation, and genetic testing insurance workflows.

Columbia University
Research Assistant | 2022–2025
Weng Lab | PI: Dr. Chunhua Weng
Phenotype-driven gene prioritization, rare disease diagnosis, and biomedical NLP.

Contact

Email: Junyoung.Kim@uth.tmc.edu
GitHub: github.com/CptAswadu