Dr. Hyun Keol Kim is an Assistant Professor of Radiology (Physics) at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Kim earned his PhD. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Sciences and Technology (KAIST) in 2004. During this time at KAIST, Dr. Kim studied how spectral remote sensing could be used to recover optical properties such as absorption and scattering inside the medium, via both theoretical modeling and experimental validation. In 2006, he joined Dr. Hielscher's group in Biomedical Engineering of Columbia University and has been involved in various research projects including finger joints, breast cancer, vascular disease, and small animals until 2011. Dr. Kim then joined in 2012 the Department of Radiology as a faculty member at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Kim has expertise in the development of mathematical and physical models of transport-related biological systems, which includes characterization of light-tissue interaction, 3D imaging of physiological parameters, 3D molecular imaging, and a modeling of chemical species transport. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings papers, and also contributed chapters to 2 books on medical imaging and 6 patent applications. Dr. Kim is currently working on the projects “Optical tomographic imaging of Peripheral Arterial Disease”, which is funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) of the U.S., and “Development and Commercialization of Low-Cost Vascular Optical Tomographic Imaging System”, a project funded by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.