Jang-Hwan Choi, Ph.D.

Professor Jang-Hwan Choi received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2015, focusing on AI-driven big-data analytics and image processing. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine and working as a Senior Researcher at ETRI, he joined Ewha Womans University in 2017 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence. He leads the Visual Intelligence Lab, where his current research focuses on vision-language-action models, world models, robotic perception and control, as well as medical AI, computer vision, and multimodal data analysis.

Professor Choi has published more than 50 articles in leading journals and conferences, including Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Expert Systems with Applications, AAAI, ICDM, IPMI, and MICCAI. He holds 23 patents and has completed five technology transfers. His research has been supported by major Korean government R&D programs and National Research Foundation grants. His honors include the Orthopaedic Research Society New Investigator Recognition Award, the KSME Bioengineering Division Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award, and Ewha Womans University's Outstanding Research Achievement Award.