Young Suh Hong

Researcher at the University of Michigan, School of Information

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I am currently a researcher at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, where I am fortunate to collaborate with Prof. Mark Newman. I received my Master’s degree in Health Informatics from University of Michigan’s School of Information. Before that, I was an undergraduate at Seoul National University. I majored in Computer Science and minored in Social Work.

Research Interests

  • Personalized physically & socially assistive robots
  • Interactive robot learning from human feedback/demonstration
  • Robot manipulation
  • Human-robot interaction

Publications including conference papers, journals.

[1] Analyzing facial features of engagement in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Young Suh Hong, Kaleen Shrestha, Maja Mataric.
Submitted to RESNA 2026, under review.

[2] Bandit-Supported Care Planning for Older People with Complex Health and Care Needs.
Gi-Soo Kim, Young Suh Hong, Tae Hoon Lee, Myunghee Cho Paik, Hongsoo Kim.
In Proceedings of the AICAS, 2023.

[3] EDBooks: AI-Enhanced Interactive Narratives for Programming Education.
Steve Oney, Yue Shen, Fei Wu, Young Suh Hong, Ziang Wang, Yamini Khajekar, Jiacheng Zhang, April Yi.
arXiv Preprint.

Education

2022 — 2024

University of Michigan
Master of Health Informatics

2016 — 2022

Seoul National University

BS in Computer Science