Youngwoo Yoon
Principal Researcher at ETRI
Daejeon, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolYoungwoo Yoon is a Principal Researcher at ETRI with 18 years of experience focused on human-robot interaction, computer vision, and deep learning. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence for Social Robots from KAIST and progressed through researcher and senior researcher roles to lead applied research since 2022. His work bridges HCI principles and advanced AI to make robots socially aware and visually capable, translating academic rigor into practical systems. Based in Daejeon, South Korea, he combines long-term institutional knowledge of ETRI with hands-on experimentation in multimodal interaction. An uncommon strength is his continuity within a single leading research lab, giving him deep domain context and a track record of evolving projects from foundational research to real-world prototypes.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence for Social Robots, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence for Social Robots at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
English, Korean, French
Github Skills (65)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
siggraph10
neural-network10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
data-science10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ai4r/Co-Speech-Gesture-Generation
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
ai4r/SGToolkit
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 25 comments in 1 year 2 months
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