Brief Biography

Dr. Jonghye Woo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He received the B.S. degree from Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea, in 2005, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 2007 and 2009, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He worked at Philips Research North America in Briarcliff Manor (now in Cambridge), as a Research Intern in 2009 and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, as a Research Associate in 2010. He was a postdoctoral researcher and later a faculty member at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore from 2010 to 2014. His research interests include medical image analysis and machine learning. He received the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Best Dissertation Award, the NIH/NIDCD K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, and the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research. He is currently an IEEE Senior Member and Life Member of SPIE.

Current Academic Positions

  • Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, 2022-Present.
  • Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Data Science Initiative, Cambridge, MA, 2023-Present
  • Associate member, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 2023-Present
  • Full member, Cancer Data Sciences, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, 2023-Present
  • Adjunct Professor, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA, 2015-Present
  • Investigator, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2014-Present

Editorial role/Program Committee

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • Editorial Board Member, APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing
  • Topic (Guest) Associate Editor, “Machine Learning with Big Data in Neuroimaging,” Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Guest Editor, PLOS Computational Biology
  • Organizing Committee (CLICCAI), MICCAI, 2025
  • Session Co-Chair, “Application of Generative AI in Healthcare,” IEEE ICIP, 2025
  • Area Chair, Poster Session Chair, and Program Committee, MICCAI, 2023-Present
  • MICCAI Workshop on Time-Series Data Analytics and Learning (Co-chair), MICCAI, 2023-Present
  • Session Chair and Program Committee, SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing, 2022-Present

Awards & Honors

  • Distinguished Investigator Award, Academy of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research, 2023
  • NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (NIDCD), 2013
  • Best Dissertation Award, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC, 2010
  • Scholarship from the Korean Government for MS study, 2005

Memberships

  • Senior Member, IEEE
  • Life Member, SPIE
  • Full Member, ASA
  • Full member, Sigma Xi
  • Member, APSIPA
  • Member, AAAS
  • Member, SNMMI
  • Member, ISMRM
  • Member, MICCAI