Scholars

Professor

Positions:

Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
Professor, Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health

Research Areas:

Child welfare--Evaluation, Big data, Medical care, Sequential pattern mining, Telecommunication in medicine, Medical record linkage, Data mining

UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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Profile Summary

kum@tamu.edu

1 979 458 1879

Co-author Network

Map of Science

Co-investigator Network

Websites

Population Informatics Lab

ORCID

0000-0002-6882-8053

UN Sustainable Development Goals:

Research Areas:

Child welfare--Evaluation, Big data, Medical care, Sequential pattern mining, Telecommunication in medicine, Medical record linkage, Data mining

overview

My research focuses on the data science of using massive secondary datasets to address specific questions in social, beharvioural, economic, and health sciences. Some refer to this relatively new field as population informatics.

education and training

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States) 2004
M.S.W. in Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States) 1998
M.S. in Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States) 1997
B.S. in Computer Science, Yonsei University - (Seoul, South Korea) 1995

selected publications

Academic Articles67

Christodoulou, I., Ukert, B., Vavuranakis, M. A., Kum, H., & Giannouchos, T. V. (2023). Adult Cancer-Related Emergency Department Utilization: An Analysis of Trends and Outcomes From Emergency Departments in Maryland and New York.. JCO Oncol Pract. OP2200525.
Lee, Y., Karim, M., Kum, H. C., Park, S., Rich, N. E., Noureddin, M., Singal, A. G., & Yang, J. D. (2023). Factors Associated with Unrecognized Cirrhosis in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma.. Clin Mol Hepatol.
Karim, M. A., Ramezani, M., Leroux, T., Kum, H., & Singal, A. G. (2022). Healthcare Costs for Medicare Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States.. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. S1542-3565(22)01095-3.
Sultana, I., Erraguntla, M., Kum, H., Delen, D., & Lawley, M. (2022). The Interrelationships between the length of stay, readmission, and post-acute care referral in cardiac surgery patients. Healthcare Analytics. 2, 100062-100062.
Karim, M. A., Talluri, R., Shastri, S. S., Kum, H., & Shete, S. (2022). Financial Toxicities Persist for Cancer Survivors Irrespective of Current Cancer Status: An Analysis of Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.. Cancer Res Commun. 2(10), 1119-1128.

Chapters4

Kum, H., Ahalt, S., & Pathak, D. (2013). Privacy-Preserving Data Integration Using Decoupled Data. Security and Privacy in Social Networks. 225-253. Springer Nature.
Kum, H., Chang, J. H., & Wang, W. (2007). Intelligent sequential mining via alignment: Optimization techniques for very large DB. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 587-+. Springer Nature.
Kum, H. C., Paulsen, S., & Wang, W. (2005). Comparative study of sequential pattern mining models. Lin, T. Y., Ohsuga, S., Liau, C. J., Hu, X., & Tsumoto, S. (Eds.), Foundations of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 43-70. Springer Science & Business Media.
Nyland, L., Prins, J., Yun, R. H., Hermans, J., Kum, H., & Wang, L. (1998). Modeling dynamic load balancing in molecular dynamics to achieve scalable parallel execution. Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel. 356-365. Springer Nature.