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Dr. Heejun Kim

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Information Science

(940) 369-8285

Email: Heejun.Kim@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
    Major: Information and Library Science
    Dissertation: Credibility assessment of health information on social media: Discovering credibility factors, operationalization, and prediction
  • MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013
    Major: Geography
    Specialization: Geographic Information Science
    Dissertation: 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

  • 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, 3 courses.
  • HINF 5771 - Applications of Health Data Analytics, 1 course.
  • 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, 2 courses.
  • 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, 7 courses.
  • INFO 6910 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • INFO 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 7 courses.

Non-Credit Instruction

  • Guest Lecture, SOOKMYUNG WOMEN`S UNIVERSITY, 60 participants. (May 2023 - 2023).
  • Guest Lecture, SOOKMYUNG WOMEN`S UNIVERSITY, 50 participants. (November 2023 - November 2023).

Directed Student Learning

  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Information Science. (August 2023).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Information Science. (February 2023).
  • 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).
  • Dissertation Committee Co-Chair, "AI Ethical Issues on Web Search Results," Information Science. (November 2022).
  • 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).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "The Impact of Information Literacy on Health Management among Senior Adults with Hypertension," Information Science. (January 2021).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "Analyzing User Reviews of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Apps for PTSD: Topic Modeling and Content Analysis," Information Science. (September 2020).

Awards and Honors

  • Nominated for Outstanding Mentor to the Masters of Science in Data Science Program, Drexel University Graduate Student Association. (2020).
  • Best Special Interest Group (SIG) Health Informatics Poster Award, ASIS&T. (2018).
  • Highlights of the year at Peter Embi’s Annual Clinical Research Informatics Year-In-Review, American Medical Informatics Association. (2018).
  • Citizen Science Conference Travel Award, Citizen Science Association. (2015).

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, A., 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, 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. (2022 - 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, Date of Patent Application: March 2, 2021. Date Patent Approved: January 5, 2023. .

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).