Youngwoo Yoon
Principal Researcher at ETRI
Daejeon, South Korea
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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 (57)
transformers10
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning-models10
machine-learning10
inference10
multimodal10
youtube10
siggraph10
llm10
audio10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
neural-network10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ai4r/Gesture-Generation-from-Trimodal-Context
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
Speech Gesture Generation from the Trimodal Context of Text, Audio, and Speaker Identity (SIGGRAPH Asia 2020)
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 3 months
audiosiggraphspeech
ai4r/Co-Speech-Gesture-Generation
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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