Youngwook Kee

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Youngwook Kee, PhD
Department of Medical Physics
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

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News

  • (08/09/2023) Recieved NoA for the resubmitted NIBIB Trailblazer grant application!

  • (07/16/2023) R21 (NIDDK) grant application was submitted (A1)

  • (07/06/2023) Dr. MungSoo Kang's work was accepted for publication in MRM | Early View

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Research

My research interests are in the development of MRI technology and its clinical translation, including:

  • Pulse sequence design

  • Image reconstruction algorithms with high-performance/parallel computing

  • Hepatic iron/fat quantification

  • Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) in body

  • Renal functional MRI

  • Tumor hypoxia imaging

My past research projects include:

  • Information-theoretic and convex relaxation methods in computer vision

  • Brain QSM

Education & Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Attending/Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Sep 2020 – Present

  • Research Scientist (Academic Staff - Research), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Aug 2018 – Jul 2020

  • Postdoctoral Associate, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, Aug 2015 – Jul 2018

  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, South Korea, Aug 2015

    • Dissertation: Convex Relaxation Approaches for Computing Information-Theoretic Minimal Partitions and the Mumford-Shah Functional | Mathematics Genealogy

Contact

321 E 61st St
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY 10065
Office: +1 (646) 608-8283
Email: dr.youngwook.kee@gmail.com