Donghee Choi, Ph.D. (최동희)
iamdongheechoi@gmail.com
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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
🍽 Recipe-related / 🧬 Biomedical / 💰 Finance / 📚 NLP / 👮 Police Law|
🧬 📚 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, Jungwoo Park, Olga Reykhart, Thomas Fetherston, Donghee Choi, Soo Heon Kwak, Qingyu Chen, Jaewoo Kang npj Digital Medicine, 2025 [Paper] [Arxiv] |
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🧬 📚 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 [OpenReview] |
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🧬 📚 A synthetic data generation framework for scalable and resource-efficient medical AI assistants Abdurrahim Yilmaz, Furkan Yuceyalcin, Rahmetullah Varol, Ece Gokyayla, Ozan Erdem, Donghee Choi, Ali Anil Demircali, Gulsum Gencoglan, Joram M. Posma, Burak Temelkuran Preprint, 2025 [Arxiv] |
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🧬 📚 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] |
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🍽 📚 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] |
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💰 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] |
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👮 📚 LAPIS: language model-augmented police investigation system Heedou Kim, Dain Kim, Jiwoo Lee, Chanwoong Yoon, Donghee Choi, Mogan Gim, Jaewoo Kang CIKM 2024 [ACM] |
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🍽 📚 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] |
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🍽 📚 KitchenScale: Learning to predict ingredient quantities from recipe contexts Donghee Choi, Mogan Gim, Samy Badreddine, Hajung Kim, Donghyeon Park, and Jaewoo Kang Expert Systems with Applications 2023 [Paper] |
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💰 HADAPS: Hierarchical Adaptive Multi-Asset Portfolio Selection Jinkyu Kim, Donghee Choi(Co-first author), Mogan Gim, and Jaewoo Kang. IEEE Access 2023 [Paper] |
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🍽 RecipeMind: guiding ingredient choices from food pairing to recipe completion using cascaded set transformer Mogan Gim, Donghee Choi(Co-first author), Kana Maruyama, Jihun Choi, Hajung Kim, Donghyeon Park, and Jaewoo Kang CIKM 2022 [Paper] |
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Learning user preferences and understanding calendar contexts for event scheduling Donghyeon Kim, Jinhyuk Lee, Donghee Choi, Jaehoon Choi, Jaewoo Kang CIKM 2018 [Paper] |
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📚 Name Nationality Classification with Recurrent Neural Networks Jinhyuk Lee, Hyunjae Kim, Miyoung Ko, Donghee Choi, Jaehoon Choi, Jaewoo Kang IJCAI 2017 [Paper] |
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🧬 📚 BEST: next-generation biomedical entity search tool for knowledge discovery from biomedical literature Sunwon Lee, Donghyeon Kim, Kyubum Lee, Jaehoon Choi, Seongsoon Kim, Minji Jeon, Sangrak Lim, Donghee Choi, Sunkyu Kim, Aik-Choon Tan, Jaewoo Kang PloS one 2016 [Paper] |
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📚 Smith search: Opinion-based restaurant search engine Jaehoon Choi, Donghyeon Kim, Donghee Choi, Sangrak Lim, Seongsoon Kim, Jaewoo Kang, Youngjae Choi WWW 2015 Demo [Paper] |
Academic Service
- Reviewer for Conferences: KDD (2025), ACL Rolling Review (2025 Feb, May), ACL (Secondary: 2021), EMNLP (2021, Secondary: 2023), NAACL (2024), ICDM (Secondary: 2019, 2020)
- Reviewer for Journals: Information Processing & Management (Secondary: 2024), JMIR (2024), Discover Computing (2024), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2024)
Patents
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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] |
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTENTS (2014, Korea) Jaewoo Kang, Jaehoon Choi, Sangrak Lim, and Donghee Choi [Patent Link] |