I am an AI, sensor, robotics, and healthcare researcher focused on how AI and sensors can enhance robotics and healthcare technologies. My primary research interests include the advanced use of high-resolution tactile sensors on robots using AI techniques, as well as AI-powered optimization of patient treatment.
Postdoctoral Fellow Wearable Intelligence Lab (PI: Yiyue Luo), Electrical & Computer Engineering, Washington University
Postdoctoral Fellow Cognition and Intelligence Lab (PI: Kyung-Joong Kim), Department of AI Convergence, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Intern Technology Licensing Office, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Ph.D. School of Integrated Technology, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Leading Researcher, Electronic health records generation project: Research on safe and shareable synthetic health data generation with specialized GAN model
Leading Researcher, Tactile-EMG translation project: Research on tactile signal and EMG signal translation with transformer-based AI model
Leading Researcher, Intelligent walker project: Research on user-adaptive intelligent walker with tactile sensor and AI technique
Researcher, Rehabilitation AI project: Research on rehabilitation level adjustment with AI approach
Leading Researcher, Intelligent carpet for VR project: Research on advanced use of high-resolution tactile sensor as VR locomotion equipment
Leading Researcher, Sepsis patients treatment optimizing project: Research on optimizing patient treatment sequence using offline reinforcement learning and federated learning with treatment records
($1,000; Role: Team leader) 2nd place: Shareable Safe Electronic Health Records Data Generation System
Yunho Choi, Yoon, J., Lee, H., Noh, J., Akan, E., Kim, E., DelPreto, J., Rus, D., Matusik, W., and Kim, K.-J. Bridging Tactile and EMG signals: A Deep Learning Approach for Cross-Modal Signal Translation (In progress)
Oh, S., Yunho Choi, Joo, H.-T. & Kim, K.-J. Federated Reinforcement Learning for Privacy-Preserving Sepsis Patient Treatment Model. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (2024),A (IF 6.6 JCI top 9.5%)
Yunho Choi, Oh, S., Huh, J. W., Joo, H.-T., Lee, H., You, W., Bae, C.-m., Choi, J.-H. & Kim, K.-J. Deep Reinforcement Learning Extracts the Optimal Sepsis Treatment Policy from Treatment Records. Communications Medicine 4.1 (2024): 245, Nature Portfolio. (IF 6.3 JCI top 15%)
Lee, H., Yunho Choi, Eizad, A., Song, W.-K., Kim, K.-J. & Yoon, J. A machine learning based initial difficulty level adjustment method for balance exercise on a trunk rehabilitation robot. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 31, 1857– 1866 (2023). (IF 5.2 JCI top 2%)
Yunho Choi, Park, D.-H., Lee, S., Han, I., Akan, E., Jeon, H.-C., Luo, Y., Kim, S., Matusik, W., Rus, D., et al. Seamless-walk: natural and comfortable virtual reality locomotion method with a high-resolution tactile sensor. Virtual Reality 27, 1431–1445 (2023). (IF 5.0 JCI top 11%)
Yunho Choi., Noh, J., Kim, E., Lee, H., Akan, E., DelPreto, J., Matusik, W., Rus, D. & Kim, K.-J. Real-time Multi-modal Comprehensive Bodyweight Exercise Feedback System with a Personal Virtual Expert Guiding, in revision UbiComp 2025.
Yunho Choi., Hwang, S., Moon, J., Lee, H., Yeo, D., Seong, M., Luo, Y., Kim, S., Matusik, W., Rus, D. & Kim, K.-J. Adaptive Walker: User Intention and Terrain Aware Intelligent Walker with High-Resolution Tactile and IMU Sensor, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Lee, S.-H., Joo, H.-T., Chung, I., Park, D., Yunho CHOI & Kim, K.-J. A Novel Approach for Virtual Locomotion Gesture Classification: Self-Teaching Vision Transformer for a Carpet-Type Tactile Sensor in 2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) (2024), 461–471.
Yunho CHOI, Jeon, H., Lee, S., Han, I., Luo, Y., Kim, S., Matusik, W. & Kim, K. Seamlesswalk: Novel natural virtual reality locomotion method with a high-resolution tactile sensor in 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (2022), 696–697.
(Equal contribution)Yunho Choi* and Hosu LEE*., Yoon, J.-w. & Kim, K.-J. Games for trunk rehabilitation robot Preprint, writing.
Yunho Choi, Kim, K.-J., Kim, EH. & Noh, JH. Motion Feedback Method and System Using Normalized Data. Korea Patent. 10-2790083, Mar. 2025.
Last updated: Nov 5, 2025