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SURGEON × AI RESEARCHER

Sung Eun Kim, MD

01Postdoctoral Research Fellow · Harvard Medical School
02Associate Research Professor · Seoul National University Hospital

I am an orthopedic surgeon and AI researcher working at the intersection of medicine and machine learning. At Harvard Medical School's Department of Biomedical Informatics I work with Dr. Pranav Rajpurkar on AI for medical imaging, clinical decision support, and healthcare evaluation. After seven years and over a thousand knee surgeries, I build AI grounded in the realities of clinical practice — across 40+ publications, including Nature Medicine.

Sung Eun Kim, MD
40+
Peer-reviewed papers
incl. Nature Medicine, JBJS, CVPR
0
Citations
Google Scholar
Clinical Simulation
Medical Robotics
Current focus
active research directions
§ IA MAP OF THE WORK

Publications, plotted

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§ IIWHAT I WORK ON

Research themes

01

Medical Vision Models

Grounded reasoning, segmentation, and report generation across X-ray, CT, ultrasound, and MRI. Building datasets and benchmarks that hold models accountable to clinical truth.

  • → 3DReasonKnee
  • → ReXGroundingCT
  • → FactCheXcker
  • → ReXSonoVQA
02

Dynamic AI Evaluation

Static benchmarks miss how AI behaves in the wild. We build simulators and clinically grounded metrics so models are evaluated the way they are deployed.

  • → Clinical Environment Simulator (Nature Medicine)
  • → CRIMSON
  • → ReXTrust
03

LLMs in the Clinic

Multi-agent diagnosis, voice agents for prehospital care, and the under-studied failure modes of chatty models — sycophancy, hallucination, premature closure.

  • → VOICE (IEEE AIxMHC)
  • → Sycophancy in Medical LLMs
  • → Mixed-Vendor Diagnosis
04

Translational Orthopedic AI

Deployed deep-learning pipelines for alignment measurement, fracture detection, and outcome prediction — validated across institutions and now used in real clinical workflows.

  • → Hip Fracture DL
  • → Automated Tibial Slope
  • → CPAK Analysis (JBJS)
§ IVHAND-PICKED

Selected papers

§ VTHE FULL RECORD

All publications

§ VIRECENT

News

§ VIIIN THE PIPELINE

Under review

  • 1 first-author manuscript under review at CoRL 2026
  • 2 manuscripts under review at ACL ARR 2026
  • 1 manuscript under review at MLHC 2026
§ VIIIPATH

Experience & training

  1. Sep 2024Present

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Harvard Medical School · Department of Biomedical Informatics
    PI: Pranav Rajpurkar. Developing AI systems for medical applications.
  2. Sep 2024Present

    Associate Research Professor

    Seoul National University Hospital · Biomedical Research Institute
    National Strategic Technology Research Institute. Leading AI research across orthopedics and diverse medical fields.
  3. Mar 2023Present

    Ph.D. Candidate, Orthopedic Surgery

    Seoul National University Graduate School of Medicine
    AI applications in orthopedic surgery research.
  4. Mar 2022Jul 2024

    Clinical & Research Fellow (Knee Surgery)

    Seoul National University Hospital
    Specialized training in knee arthroplasty, sports medicine, and robotic surgery under Profs. Han and Ro.
  5. Feb 2023

    M.S. in Orthopedic Surgery

    Seoul National University Graduate School of Medicine
  6. Mar 2018Feb 2022

    Orthopedic Surgery Resident

    Seoul National University Hospital
    Comprehensive orthopedic training. Best Resident Award (2020).
  7. May 2017Feb 2018

    Intern

    Seoul National University Hospital
  8. Apr 2014Apr 2017

    Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer

    Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
    Public health service during MERS crisis. Highest Commendation from Minister of Health.
  9. Feb 2014

    Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)

    Seoul National University College of Medicine
§ IXRECOGNITION

Awards & honors