Young-ho Kim
Research Scientist NAVER AI Lab at NAVER Corp
Seongnam-si, South Korea
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Top SchoolYoung-ho Kim is a research scientist leading Human-Computer Interaction work at NAVER AI Lab, focusing on the intersection of ubiquitous computing, personal health informatics, and AI-driven personal data visualization. With a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University and a decade of experience spanning academia and industry, he translates multidisciplinary design and engineering insights into self-tracking systems that keep people meaningfully in the loop. Prior to NAVER he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland HCI Lab, where he combined information studies with design to study human-data interaction. He has held tech leadership roles within NAVER’s AI organizations, bridging rigorous academic methods and product-oriented research. Beyond traditional HCI, he brings a rare fusion of visual communication design and machine learning to craft interfaces that make complex health data interpretable and actionable. Based in Seongnam-si, South Korea, he is noted for pairing scholarly publication with practical system building that empowers everyday self-monitoring.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University
Github Skills (35)
kotlin10
fitness10
visualization10
human-computer-interaction10
mobile-application10
fitbit10
speech10
android10
interaction10
multimodal-interactions10
react-native9
sdk8
microsoft-cognitive-services8
cognitive-services8
azure-cognitive-services8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yghokim/chatlib
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 130 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 3 months
OmniTrack/omnitrack_for_research
Jul 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 release, 96 commits, 86 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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