Prof. Soyeon Kim
Assistant Professor, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine
Tel. +82-2-961-0908
Email. kimsoyeon@khu.ac.kr
Google scholar, Linkedin, @soyeon2019 (X/ formerly Twitter)
Prof. Soyeon Kim
Assistant Professor, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine
Tel. +82-2-961-0908
Email. kimsoyeon@khu.ac.kr
Google scholar, Linkedin, @soyeon2019 (X/ formerly Twitter)
1. Education
2017-2022.08 Ph.D. in Digital health, Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences and Technology (SAIHST), Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea.
(Advisor: Prof. Hong-Hee Won from Sungkyunkwan University and Prof. Woojae Myung from Seoul National University)
2013-2017 B.S. (Bachelor of Science) in Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
2. Working Experiences
2025.09~ Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University & Kyung Hee Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
2023-2025.08 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Boston, MA, USA.
(Advisor: Prof. Hailiang Huang; co-Advisor: Prof. Tian Ge)
2022.09~12 Research Scientist, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea
2020-2021 Visiting Ph.D. student, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA (Advisor: Prof. Ron Do)
2018-2020 Research Scientist, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea
2017-2019 Teaching Assistant (Statistical programming, Biomedical Informatics, Essentials of Genomics, and Computer programming), Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
3. Honors and Award
2024 The Reviewers’ Choice Award (top 1%), ASHG 2024
2024 ASHG Trainee Research Excellence Award Postdoctoral Finalist (Out of over 3,000 submitted abstracts, only the top 9 postdocs are selected as finalists), The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), Denver, USA.
2023 The Reviewers’ Choice Award (top 10%), ASHG 2023
2020-2021 Biomedical Global Talent Fellowship from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry
Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, South Korea (Grant Number: HI19C1328000020)
2017-2019 Academic Excellence Scholarship from the Graduate School of Sungkyunkwan University, the Samsung Advanced Institute for
Health Sciences & Technology
2017 Scholarship from 12th Asian Institute in Statistical Genetics and Genomics