Kim named inaugural William L. Maxwell Postdoctoral Fellow

Younghoon Kim has been named the inaugural William L. Maxwell '56 Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell's Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. The Maxwell Fellowship was established through a gift from Dev Joneja, Ph.D. '89, in support of Cornell Engineering's Innovations in Medicine initiative.

Kim earned his Ph.D. in statistics and operations research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include modeling high-dimensional time series and spatial fields; computational statistics for large-scale problems; and applications in psychology, neuroscience, finance and biomedical engineering.

As Maxwell Fellow, Kim is conducting research on stress detection in older adults with depression and chronic pain using passively-sensed mHealth data collected from smartphones and wearable devices. He is working in collaboration with his faculty mentors, Sumanta Basu, associate professor of statistics and data science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Scienceand field faculty in operations research and information engineering, and Samprit Banerjee, associate professor of biostatistics in population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine.

This one-year fellowship was created to advance data science research in medicine by attracting top scholars to Cornell to work in interdisciplinary teams, fostering collaborations between data scientists and medical experts to address complex challenges in healthcare, such as personalized medicine, disease detection, and healthcare delivery optimization.

As part of Cornell's radical collaborations, the Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society aims to unify programs and curricula in data science with an initial emphasis on questions grounded in data that are generated by human activity, including computational social science, the economics/computer science interface, aspects of digital agriculture in the production and management of agriculture, digital platforms supporting urban infrastructure, and as a theme that is cross-cutting in many of these areas, the corresponding issues of privacy, security, and fairness.

Megan Pillar is the communications specialist for societal systems within Cornell Research & Innovation