Education

• Ph.D. (Statistics) 2005, University of Chicago
• M.S. (Financial Mathematics) 2000, University of Chicago
• M.S. (Physics) 1993, Instituto Balseiro, Argentina

Research Interests

• Applied statistical genetics
• Environmental statistics
• Spatial statistics

Publications

• Im, H. K., Gamazon, E. R., Nicolae, D. L., & Cox, N. J. (2012). On Sharing Quantitative Trait GWAS Results in an Era of Multiple-omics Data and the Limits of Genomic Privacy. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 1–8. The American Society of Human Genetics. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.02.008


• Im, H. K., Gamazon, E. R., Stark, A. L., Huang, R. S., Cox, N. J., & Dolan, M. E. (2012). Mixed effects modeling of proliferation rates in cell-based models: consequence for pharmacogenomics and cancer. PLoS Genetics, 8(2), e1002525. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002525


• Wen, Y., Gamazon, E. R., Bleibel, W. K., Wing, C., Mi, S., McIlwee, B.E., Delaney, S. M., Duan, S., Im, H. K., and Dolan, M. E. (2011). An eQTL-based method identifies CTTN and ZMAT3 as pemetrexed susceptibility markers. HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddr583


• Ziliak, D., O'donnell, P. H., Im, H. K., Gamazon, E. R., Chen, P., Delaney, S., Shukla, S., et al. (2011). Germline polymorphisms discovered via a cell-based, genome-wide approach predict platinum response in head and neck cancers. Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine, 157(5), 265-272. doi:10.1016/j.trsl.2011.01.005


• Huang, R. S., Johnatty, S. E., Gamazon, E. R., Im, H. K., Ziliak, D., Duan, S., Zhang, W., et al. (2011). Platinum sensitivity-related germline polymorphism discovered via a cell-based approach and analysis of its association with outcome in ovarian cancer patients. CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH.


• Huang, R. S., Gamazon, E. R., Ziliak, D., Wen, Y., Im, H. K., Zhang, W., Wing, C., et al. (2011). Population differences in microRNA expression and biological implications. RNA BIOLOGY, 8(4), 692-701.


• Gamazon, E. R., Im, H. K., O'Donnell, P., Ziliak, D., Stark, A., Cox, N., Dolan, M., et al. (2011). Comprehensive Evaluation of the Contribution of X Chromosome Genes to Platinum Sensitivity. Molecular cancer therapeutics, 10(3), 472.


• Kenny, H., Leonhardt, P., Ladanyi, A., Yamada, S., Montag, A., Im, H.K., Jagadeeswaran, S., et al. (2011). Targeting the Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor Inhibits Ovarian Cancer Metastasis. CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH, 17(3), 459.


• Gamazon, E. R., Im, H. K., Duan, S., Lussier, Y. A., Cox, N. J., Dolan, M. E., & Zhang, W. (2010). Exprtarget: an integrative approach to predicting human microRNA targets. PLoS One, 5(10), e13534. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013534


• Forester, J. D., Im, H. K., & Rathouz, P. J. (2009). Accounting for animal movement in estimation of resource selection functions: sampling and data analysis. Ecology, 90(12), 3554-3565.


• Im, H. K., Rathouz, P. J., & Frederick, J. E. (2009). Space-time modeling of 20 years of daily air temperature in the Chicago metropolitan region. Environmetrics, 20(5), 494-511. doi:10.1002/env.940


• Im, H. K.., Stein, M., & Zhu, Z. (2007). Semiparametric estimation of spectral density with irregular observations. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102(487), 726-735. doi:10.1198/016214507000000220


• Im, H. K., Stein, M., & Kotamarthi, V. (2005). A new approach to scenario analysis using simplified chemical transport models. J. Geophys. Res., 110(D24), D24205.


• Im, H. K., Jagla, E., & Balseiro, C. (1994). Proximity effect of thin films on superconducting substrates. Physical Review B, 50(14), 10117.