Heejun KimPhD

Dr. Heejun Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of North Texas. Dr. Kim is particularly interested in applying computational methods to health and social problems. One of his main research interests is developing an intelligent system that automatically recommends credible health information.

He applies text/data mining to social media posts and spontaneous reports in order to detect potential adverse drug reactions. He is also interested in identifying harmful and useful comments on mental health YouTube videos to make a safer information-sharing environment. Dr. Kim’s expertise is in text mining, machine learning, information retrieval, health informatics, and geographic information science.