Mingon KANG, Ph.D

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Dr. Mingon Kang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is also a director of the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Engeering program at UNLV. His research interest is to develop novel AI models to analyze biomedical data. His research includes trustworthy AI, integrative and interpretable deep learning models, and fairness ML to analyze sequencing, multi-omics, biomedical imaging, and electronic health record data.


Email: mingon.kang@unlv.edu, Tel: +1-702-774-3416

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 FEATURED PUBLICATIONS 

#Enzyme Function Prediction

Kim & Avinash et al.

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"Prediction of bacterial Cytochrome P450-compound interactions based on positive-unlabeled deep learning"

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Bioinformatics

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2026


#Enzyme Function Prediction

Dumontet et al.

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"Trustworthy prediction of enzyme commission numbers using a hierarchical interpretable transformer"

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Nature Communications

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2026


#LASSO

Baek et al.

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"Stochastic LASSO for extremely high-dimensional genomic data"

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Scientific Reports

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2026


#Digital Pathology

Kosaraju et al.

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"ALK-expression screening using H&E-stained histopathological images via evidential deep learning"

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npj Digital Medicine

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2025


#Fairness ML #Sexual Dimorphism

Ko et al.

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"SPIN: Sex-specific and Pathway-based Interpretable Neural Network for Sexual Dimorphism Analysis"

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Briefings in Bioinformatics

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2024


#Enzyme Function Prediction

Han et al.

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"Evidential deep learning for trustworthy prediction of enzyme commission number"

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Briefings in Bioinformatics

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2023


#Digital Pathology

Kosaraju et al.

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"Deep learning-based framework for slide-based histopathological image analysis"

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Scientific Reports

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2022


#Multi-omics Data Analysis

Kang et al.

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"A Roadmap for Multi-Omics Data Integration using Deep Learning"

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Briefings in Bioinformatics

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2021


#Survival Analysis #Pathway-informed NN

Oh et al.

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"PathCNN: Interpretable convolutional neural networks for survival prediction and pathway analysis applied to glioblastoma"

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International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Published in Bioinformatics

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2021


#Digital Pathology

Kosaraju et al.

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"Deep-Hipo: Multi-scale Receptive Field Deep Learning for Histopathological Image Analysis"

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Methods

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2020


#Digital Pathology #Survival Analysis #Pathway-Informed NN

Hao et al.

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"PAGE-Net: Interpretable and Integrative Deep Learning for Survival Analysis Using Histopathological Images and Genomic Data"

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Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB)

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2020


#Survival Analysis #Pathway-Informed NN

Hao et al.

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"Interpretable deep neural network for cancer survival analysis by integrating genomic and clinical data"

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BMC Medical Genomics

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2019


#Genomics #Epistasis

Kang et al.

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"eQTL epistasis: detecting epistatic effects and inferring hierarchical relationships of genes in biological pathways"

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Bioinformatics

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2015