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Who am I? (Link: Curriculum Vitae)

• Name:
  Dongyeop Jang (장동엽)

• Current Position:
  Assistant professor at Department of Physiology, College of Korean Medicine, Dong-Eui University (동의대학교 한의과대학 생리학교실)

• Research Area:
  Understanding Korean traditional medicine from a machine-learning perspective
  AI-inspired Korean medicine
  In silico drug analysis

Educations

• Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Korea, May. 2024 - Feb. 2025
  Post-Doc.
  Advisor: Jeeyeon Jung, M.D.(KMD), Ph.D.
  TKM (Traditional Korean Medicine) approach for Healthy aging

• Gachon University, Korea, Mar. 2020 ~ Feb. 2024
  Ph.D. in Traditional Korean Medicine
  Advisor: Chang-Eop Kim, M.D.(KMD), Ph.D.
  Thesis: Combinatory Use of Herbs Can Increase Consistency of Herbal Medicine: Investigation by mathematical modeling and simulation approach

• Gachon University, Korea, Mar. 2018 ~ Feb. 2020
  M.S. in Traditional Korean Medicine
  Advisor: Chang-Eop Kim, M.D.(KMD), Ph.D.
  Thesis: Generating Synthetic Patient Records using Gaussian Mixture model

• Korea National Open University, Korea, Sep. 2018 ~ Feb. 2021
  B.S. in Statistics and Data Science

• Dongshin University, Korea, Mar. 2012 ~ Feb. 2018
  B.S. and M.D. in Traditional Korean Medicine

Awards and Honors

• Excellent Presentation Award, Korea Metabolomics Society (Apr. 2024)

• Award for model graduate student, Graduate School of Gachon University, Korea (Feb. 2024)

• Grand Prize at the Future Talent Awards, The Society of Korean Medicine (Jan. 2024)

• Award for poster presentation, The 20th International Congress of Oriental Medicine. (Sep. 2023)

• Scholarship for academic excellence, Gachon University, Korea (Mar. 2020)

• Excellence award in oral presentation, Annual Symposium of Society for Meridian and Acupoint, Korea (Jul. 2019)

• Poster Award, Korean Medicine Big Concert of Korean Medical Information Coorperation, Korea (Sep. 2018)

Projects engaged

• Scientific research on Oriental medicine theory for healthy aging, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine / Bioinformatics (May 2024 ~ Feb. 2025)

• Research on Technology Development for Quality Assessment of Korean Herbal Medicine (Herbal Medicine) Preparations, Korea Health Industry Development Institute / Candidate herbal medicine (herbal medicine) selection and bioinformatics analysis (Feb. 2021 ~ Feb. 2024)

• Analyzing the intrinsic manifold structure of Korean medicine clinical data and developing virtual patient data generation technology, National Research Foundation of Korea / Tabular clinical data analysis (Jun. 2020 ~ Feb. 2022)

• Machine Learning-Based Decision-Making System Structure Analysis of Traditional Asian Medicine Literature, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine / Text data analysis (Jan. 2020 ~ Oct. 2020)

• Identification of neural network-based computational principles of Korean medicine diagnosis and treatment process and development of Korean clinical decision-making AI model, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine / Text data analysis, linear/nonlinear analysis framework development (Jan. 2019 ~ Oct. 2019)

Lectures

• Seminar on Basic Research Papers in Korean Medicine, Dong-Eui University (Mar. 2025 ~)

• Introduction to Traditional Korean Medicine, Dong-Eui University (Mar. 2025 ~)

• Physiology, Gachon University (Sep.-Dec. 2023)

• The Basics of Network Pharmacology, The Korean Society of Pharmacognosy, (Apr. 2023)
  (Network Pharmacology 기초, 한국생약학회)

• Practical Workshop on Traditional Korean Medicine Data Analytics,  National Institute of the Korean Medicine Development, (Oct. 2022)
  (한의약 데이터 분석 실무 워크숍, 한의약진흥원)

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