JUNG-HOON KIM, PH.D. Research Associate, Research Instructor at the George Washington University

Jung-Hoon Kim, Ph.D., Research Associate, joined the Developing Brain Institute (DBI) at Children’s National in March 2021. Jung-Hoon’s primary research topic is characterizing fetal-neonatal brain connectivity using machine learning. Before joining DBI, he obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University where he developed a deep generative model that, without supervision, could learn brain representations of young adults. Currently, Jung-Hoon is working on applying the novel deep generative model to expand our understanding of the developing brain network during the fetal-neonatal period.

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Address: 111 Michigan Ave. NW; Washington, D.C., 20010
Email: [email protected]
Department: MRI Lab

Recent publications & presentations

2024 | April

Kim JH, De Asis-Cruz J, Andescavage NN, du Plessis A, Limperopoulos C. Disrupted functional brain networks in neonates with congenital heart disease. Children’s National Hospital 14th Annual Research, Education and Innovation Week. Washington, D.C. April 2024.

Kim JH, De Asis-Cruz J, Limperopoulos C. Improving reliability of fetal brain signatures using censoring high-motion frames in fetal functional MRI. Children’s National Hospital 14th Annual Research, Education and Innovation Week. Washington, D.C. April 2024.

Cruz J, Kim JH, Cook KM, Teramoto H, Mastracchio CE, Kapse KJ, Andescavage N, Limperopoulos C. Associations between fetal hippocampal functional connectivity and maternal psychopathology. Children’s National Hospital 14th Annual Research, Education and Innovation Week. Washington, D.C. April 2024.

Cruz JD, Cook KM, Kim JH, Kasper ML, Saulino P, Andescavage N, Limperopoulos C. Fetal cortical thickness and structural brain connectivity changes associated with in utero exposure to SSRIs. Children’s National Hospital 14th Annual Research, Education and Innovation Week. Washington, D.C. April 2024.

2023 | November

Cook KM, De Asis-Cruz J, Kim JH, Basu SK, Andescavage N, Murnick J, Spoehr E, Liggett M, du Plessis AJ, Limperopoulos C. Experience of early-life pain in premature infants is associated with atypical cerebellar development and later neurodevelopmental deficits. BMC Med. 2023 Nov 14;21(1):435. doi: 10.1186/s12916-023-03141-w. PMID: 37957651
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37957651/

2023 | May

Kim JH, De Asis-Cruz J, Krishnamurthy D, Limperopoulos C. Towards a more informative representation of the fetal-neonatal brain connectome using variational autoencoder. Elife. 2023 May 15;12:e80878. doi: 10.7554/eLife.80878. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37184067 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37184067/