Hyunjae Kim

Dr. Hyunjae Kim is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science at Yale University School of Medicine. He was selected as a 2026 awardee of the Yale Biomedical Imaging Institute (YBII) Postdoctoral Funding Program. Prior to this, he earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Korea University in 2023, where he also served as a Postdoctoral Researcher from 2023 to 2024.

Dr. Kim specializes in natural language processing, medical foundation models, and multimodal learning. His research focuses on developing AI models that learn from and reason across multimodal biomedical data, with particular interests in the retrieval and reliable use of biomedical evidence and in the development of large-scale biomedical datasets and resources.

An active contributor to the AI research community, Dr. Kim serves as an area chair and reviewer for leading international conferences such as AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and NeurIPS. He also reviews for top-tier journals including Nature, Nature Biomedical Engineering, and ACM Computing Surveys.

Dr. Kim has been recognized for his top-ranked performance in international biomedical AI competitions, including BioCreative VII, BioASQ 11b, and the BioNLP Workshop-RadSum23. His work has been published in prominent venues such as AAAI, ACL, EACL, EMNLP, NAACL, npj Digital Medicine, and Nature Communications, contributing to advances in AI methods and their application to real-world problems in biomedicine and healthcare.