Hyeokhyen Kwon
Co-founder And Co-director at Georgia Tech - Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHyeokhyen Kwon is an Assistant Professor and co-founder focused on human-centered AI for brain and mental health, blending computer vision, ubiquitous sensing, and privacy-preserving machine learning to build clinically validated decision-support systems. With 11 years of experience spanning PhD research at Georgia Tech to faculty roles at Emory and joint appointments at Georgia Tech, he leads efforts to translate sensor-driven models from lab prototypes to real-world clinics and daily living environments. His work emphasizes edge and distributed systems that are accessible, secure, and scalable, informed by collaborations with NIH, industry partners like Oracle and Samsung, and philanthropic supporters. Kwon’s research has been published at top venues including CVPR, ICCV, Ubicomp, and IMWUT, reflecting a rare combination of signal/video processing and applied ML for neurohealth. He also brings practical systems experience—from internships at Adobe and Oculus to service as a Republic of Korea Air Force sergeant—giving him a pragmatic perspective on deploying robust AI in constrained settings. As co-director of the BRAINS center, he is accelerating patient-centered, data-driven assessment and personalized care through interdisciplinary partnerships and edge-first AI designs.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), electronic engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), electronic engineering at Sogang UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (MS), computer vision, Master of Science (MS), computer vision at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
English, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (90)
python10
machine-learning10
rendering9
neural-network9
computer-graphics9
deep-learning9
tensorflow9
ml8
opengl8
cpp8
arm8
mesh-processing8
matconvnet8
toolbox8
deep-neural-networks8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hyeokhyen/imutube
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
KwonVitalLab/KwonVitalLab.github.io
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Lab Website
Contributions:279 pushes in 2 years
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