Donghee Choi, Ph.D. (최동희)

iamdongheechoi@gmail.com

Donghee Choi, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at Imperial College London since November 2023, supervised by Joram M. Posma. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Korea University in August 2023, where he was advised by Professor Jaewoo Kang.

He also holds an M.S. in Bioinformatics and a B.S. in Computer Science from Korea University, both supervised by Professor Jaewoo Kang. His research interests span AI, Bioinformatics, and Computational Science, with a focus on applications of AI in gastronomy, human-computer interaction, and knowledge representation.

Donghee has extensive experience in academia and industry. He interned at Sony AI on their Gastronomy AI project, co-founded and worked with startups like LYZE, Konolabs, and Opinion8, and contributed to diverse projects involving AI applications in various domains. He has also published extensively in international conferences and journals, showcasing his contributions to the intersection of AI and real-world problems.


Publications

From Medical Literature to Predictive Features: An Evidence-based Knowledge Graph Approach
Donghee Choi, Antoine D Lain, Joram M. Posma, Mark Kozdoba, Binyamin Perets, Shie Mannor.
LMRL Workshop at ICLR, 2025
DermaSynth: Rich Synthetic Image-Text Pairs Using Open Access Dermatology Datasets
Abdurrahim Yilmaz, Furkan Yuceyalcin, Ece Gokyayla, Donghee Choi, Ozan Erdem Ali Anil Demircali, Rahmetullah Varol, Ufuk Gorkem Kirabali, Gulsum Gencoglan, Joram M. Posma, Burak Temelkuran
Preprint, 2025
[Arxiv]
Culinary Class Wars: Evaluating LLMs using ASH in Cuisine Transfer Task
Hoonick Lee, Mogan Gim, Donghyeon Park, Donghee Choi (Co-corresponding author), Jaewoo Kang
Preprint, 2024
[Arxiv]
Small language models learn enhanced reasoning skills from medical textbooks.
Hyunjae Kim, Hyeon Hwang, Jiwoo Lee, Sihyeon Park, Dain Kim, Taewhoo Lee, Chanwoong Yoon, Jiwoong Sohn, Donghee Choi, and Jaewoo Kang.
Preprint, 2024
[Arxiv]
DeepClair: Utilizing Market Forecasts for Effective Portfolio Selection
Donghee Choi (Co-first author), Jinkyu Kim, Mogan Gim, Jinho Lee, Jaewoo Kang
CIKM 2024
[Arxiv] [ACM]
CookingSense: A Culinary Knowledgebase with Multidisciplinary Assertions
Donghee Choi, Mogan Gim, Donghyeon Park, Mujeen Sung, Hyunjae Kim, Jaewoo Kang, and Jihun Choi
LREC-COLING 2024
[Paper] [Arxiv][Github]

Academic Service


Patents

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NATIONALITY INFORMATION OF USER NAME USING NEURAL NETWORKS (2017, Korea)
Jaewoo Kang, Jaehoon Choi, Jinhyuk Lee, and Donghee Choi
[Patent Link]
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTENTS (2014, Korea)
Jaewoo Kang, Jaehoon Choi, Sangrak Lim, and Donghee Choi
[Patent Link]