Research Profile

Chanhwi Kim

UTHealth at Houston

Research Overview

Hi! I am currently pursuing my second master's degree in the School of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, with plans to continue into the PhD program. Before this, I completed an M.S. in Computer Science & Engineering at Korea University, advised by Dr. Jaewoo Kang, and a B.S. in Biotechnology at Korea University. I have also conducted research as a visiting scholar at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, advised by Dr. Timothy A. Miller.

My research focuses on natural language processing for biomedical and clinical applications, with an emphasis on multimodal language models and explainable AI that connect biomedical knowledge with real-world clinical data to support better decision making in healthcare and scientific discovery. My work has been presented at venues such as ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL.

Education

UTHealth Houston
M.S. Student in Biomedical Informatics
@Houston, TX, USA
Aug 2025 - Present
Korea University
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering; GPA: 4.0/4.0
@Seoul, Korea
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Advisor: Dr. Jaewoo Kang
University of Lausanne
Exchange Student in School of Biology
@Lausanne, Switzerland
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Korea University
B.S. in Biotechnology; GPA: 3.6/4.0
@Seoul, Korea
Mar 2016 - Feb 2022
Advisor: Dr. Jongyun Kim

Research & Professional Experience

Academic
UTHealth Houston
Graduate Research Assistant
@Houston, TX, USA
Aug 2025 - Present
Boston Children's Hospital (Harvard Medical School)
Visiting Scholar
@Boston, MA, USA
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Korea University
Research Intern
@Seoul, Korea
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Korea University
Research Intern
@Seoul, Korea
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Advisor: Dr. Chungho Kim
Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Research Intern
@Seoul, Korea
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Advisor: Dr. Hyunkyung Kim
Industry
Silvia Health
External Researcher
@Seoul, Korea
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
Identifying voice-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease, continuing as an academic-industry collaboration.
Kolon Lifescience
Clinical Trial Project Manager
@Seoul, Korea
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Managed a multicenter clinical trial across 21 hospitals and 2,000+ patients in coordination with CROs and vendors.
CJ CheilJedang
Research Intern
@Seoul, Korea
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Purification group
Samsung Bioepis
Research Intern
@Incheon, Korea
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Purification group