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Hae Kyung Im is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD in Statistics from the University of Chicago in 2005. Her research focuses on developing quantitative computational methods to analyze high-dimensional genomic data, aiming to translate discoveries into improved human health. She has contributed significantly to the fields of genetics and genomics, particularly through her work on Genome Mapping, Genome Wide Association Studies, and Transcriptome Analyses. Her recent projects include scPrediXcan, which integrates deep learning methods into a framework for cell-type-specific transcriptome-wide association studies, and the Farm Animal Genotype-Tissue Expression Project. Hae has numerous publications in prominent journals and is actively involved in advancing our understanding of complex genetic traits through innovative statistical models and integrative analyses of genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data.
Department of Philosophy