Dr. Heejun Kim
University of North Texas
Information Science
(940) 369-8285
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Education

PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019.
Major: Information and Library Science
Dissertation Title: Credibility assessment of health information on social media: Discovering credibility factors, operationalization, and prediction
MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013.
Major: Geography
Degree Specialization: Geographic Information Science
Dissertation Title: Credibility assessment of volunteered geographic information for emergency management: A model based on Bayesian networks
BS, Yonsei University, 2003.
Major: Electrical Engineering

Professional Memberships

Association for Information Science and Technology. (2016 – Present).

American Medical Informatics Association. (2016 – 2020).

Development Activities Attended

Conference Attendance,"iConference 2022," iSchools, Austin, Texas, United States of America. (February 28, 2022 – March 4, 2022).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
DTSC 3020, Introduction to Computation with Python, 2 courses.
INFO 3020, Introduction to Computation with Python, 12 courses.
INFO 5707, Data Modeling for Information Professionals, 1 course.
INFO 5717, Networked Data Modeling and Processing, 1 course.
INFO 5770, Introduction to Health Data Analytics, 5 courses.
INFO 5771, Applications of Health Data Analytics, 1 course.
INFO 5900, Special Problems, 1 course.
INFO 5960, Library and Information Sciences Institute or Seminar, 3 courses.
INFO 6660, Readings in Information Science, 3 courses.
INFO 6900, Special Problems, 5 courses.
INFO 6910, Special Problems, 1 course.
INFO 6950, Doctoral Dissertation, 7 courses.

Non-Credit Instruction

Guest Lecture, SOOKMYUNG WOMEN`S UNIVERSITY, 60. (May 2023 – 2023).

Guest Lecture, SOOKMYUNG WOMEN`S UNIVERSITY, 50. (November 2023 – November 2023).

Directed Student Learning

Dissertation Committee Chair, Information Science. (August 2023 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Information Science. (February 2023 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member,"The Impact of Big Data on Asthma Care: Exploring the Benefits of Wearables, Social Media Mining, and Adverse Drug Reactions Analysis in the United States," Information Science. (February 2023 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Co-Chair,"AI Ethical Issues on Web Search Results," Information Science. (November 2022 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Chair,"INFORMATION AWARENESS IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY: AN EVALUATION OF THE LITERATURE AND SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT RELATED TO THE BRAZILIAN BUTT LIFT PROCEDURE," Information Science. (January 2021 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Chair,"The Impact of Information Literacy on Health Management among Senior Adults with Hypertension," Information Science. (January 2021 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Chair,"Analyzing User Reviews of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Apps for PTSD: Topic Modeling and Content Analysis," Information Science. (September 2020 – Present).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Conference Proceeding
Huh-Yoo, J., Montgomery, M., Matta, R., Kim, H., Daly, B. (2022). Toward Supporting the Mental Health of Underprivileged Youth Through Village-Driven Sociotechnical Systems. Other. Proceedings of 20th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET).
McCall, T., Kim, H., Lee, E., Lakdawala, A. M., Bolton, C. (2021). Content and Social Network Analyses of Depression-related Tweets of African American College Students. Other. 2597. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Kim, H., Laing, O. S., Yang, C. C. (2020). Detecting Potential Adverse Drug Reactions of Preschool ADHD Treatment Using Health Consumer-Generated Content. Other. Proceedings of 2020 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), IEEE.
Ortiz, M. S., Kim, H., Wang, M., Seki, K., Mostafa, J. (2019). Dynamic cluster-based retrieval and discovery for biomedical literature. Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics. 390--396.
Kim, H., Arguello, J. (2017). Evaluation of features to predict the usefulness of online reviews. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 54(1), 213--221. Wiley Online Library.
Kim, H., Bian, J., Mostafa, J., Jonnalagadda, S., Del Fiol, G. (2016). Feasibility of extracting key elements from ClinicalTrials. gov to support clinicians’ patient care decisions. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2016, 705.
St\"ober, Jakob,, Heale, B. S., Fulghum, K., Del Fiol, G., Kim, H., Raja, K., Jonnalagadda, S. (2015). Concept based Information Retrieval for Clinical Case Summaries.. TREC.
Kim, J., Diesner, J., Kim, H., Aleyasen, A., Kim, H. (2014). Why name ambiguity resolution matters for scholarly big data research. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 1--6.
Journal Article
Oladapo, L., Bissadu, K., Kim, H., Smith, D. L. (2024). The Impact of Information and Health Literacy on Health Decision Making Among Adults - Evidence from North America.. Journal of Public Health. 31.
Esener, Y., McCall, T., Lakdawala, A., Kim, H. (2023). Seeking and Providing Social Support on Twitter for Trauma and Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content and Sentiment Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25, e46343.
Kim, H., Oh, S. (2023). Everyday life information seeking in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic: daily topics of information needs in social Q&A. Online Information Review. 47(2), 414-430. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Choi, B., Kim, H., Huh-Yoo, J. (2021). Seeking Mental Health Support Among College Students in Video-Based Social Media: Content and Statistical Analysis of YouTube Videos. Other. 5(11), e31944. Toronto, ON: JMIR Publications. https://formative.jmir.org/2021/11/e31944/
Stevenson, R. D., Suomela, T., Kim, H., He, Y. (2021). Seven Primary Data Types in Citizen Science Determine Data Quality Requirements and Methods. Other. 3, 49. Frontiers.
Monselise, M., Greenberg, J., Liang, O. S., Pascua, S., Kim, H., Kelly, M., Boone, J. P., Yang, C. C. (2021). An Automatic Approach to Extending the Consumer Health Vocabulary. Other. 6(1), 35 - 49. Sciendo.
Slager, S. L., Weir, C. R., Kim, H., Mostafa, J., Del Fiol, G. (2017). Physicians’ perception of alternative displays of clinical research evidence for clinical decision support--a study with case vignettes. Other. 71, S53--S59. Elsevier.
Kim, J., Kim, H., Diesner, J. (2014). The impact of name ambiguity on properties of coauthorship networks.
Poster
Jung, ., Choi, B., Kim, H., Song, L. Care Need Assessment among Patients with Bladder Cancer and Their Family Members Using Online Forum. Atlanta:.
Kim, H., Choi, B. (2018). A comparative examination of factors that affect the credibility of health information on social media. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 55(1), 843--844. Wiley Online Library.
Slager, S., Weir, C. R., Kim, H., Mostafa, J., Del Fiol, G. (2015). Alternative Information Display of Clinical Research to Support Clinical Decision Making: A Formative Evaluation..

Presentations Given

Paper

Kim, H. (Author & Presenter), Liang, O. S. (Author), Yang, C. C. (Author), International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Detecting Potential Adverse Drug Reactions of Preschool ADHD Treatment Using Health Consumer-Generated Content, Oldenburg, Germany, Germany. (2020 – ).

Kim, H. (Author & Presenter), Health Informatics Winter Workshop, Detecting Potential Adverse Drug Reactions of ADHD Medications Among Different Children Age Groups: Health Consumer-Generated Content-Based Approach, Korean Society for Information Management, Seoul, Korea, South. (2021 – 2021).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Kim, H. (Principal), "Automatic Named-Entity Recognition Annotation Tool for Drug Safety," Sponsored by College of Information, University of North Texas, $3000 Funded. (February 1, 2022 – January 31, 2023).

Copyrights, Patents

Patent
Mostafa, J., Ortiz, M. S., Seki, K., Wang, M., Kim, H., "METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR DYNAMIC CLUSTER-BASED SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL," US20230004592A1. Regular, United States, Date of Patent Application: March 2, 2021 –. Date Patent Approved: January 5, 2023 –.

Awards and Honors

Best Special Interest Group (SIG) Health Informatics Poster Award, ASIS&T. (2018 – Present).

Highlights of the year at Peter Embi’s Annual Clinical Research Informatics Year-In-Review, American Medical Informatics Association. (2018 – Present).

Citizen Science Conference Travel Award, Citizen Science Association. (2015 – Present).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (August 2023 – Present).

Committee Chair, Committee on Committees. (August 2022 – Present).

Committee Member, Student Affair Committee. (August 2022 – July 2023).

Co-Chair, Faculty Search Committee. (October 6, 2021 – May 2023).

Committee Member, Curriculum Committee. (August 2020 – July 2022).

Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (January 2021 – May 2021).

Professional Service

Editorial Review Board Member, Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science. (January 2023 – Present).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, American Medical Informatics Association. (2022 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Internet Medical Research. (2022 – Present).

Editorial Review Board Member, Aslib Journal of Information Management. (September 7, 2021 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, The Electronic Library. (April 2020 – Present).

Member, Special Interest Group (SIG) of ASIS&T Health Informatics, Silver Spring, Maryland. (2018 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. (2016 – Present).

Awards and Honors

Nominated for: Outstanding Mentor to the Masters of Science in Data Science Program, Drexel University Graduate Student Association. (2020 – Present).