ViTAL Lab

Currently, we are actively recruiting Ph.D. students and PostDocs in two topics. At Emory, you’ll have the opportunity to work with world-class clinicians, access massive multimodal clinical datasets, and conduct high-impact, real-world research.

🔹 Multimodal Human Activity Recognition for neuropsychiatric conditions across diverse populations (infants, children, older adults, etc.)
🔹 Stakeholder-Centered AI Clinics, designing and implementing AI-driven systems in clinical settings (neurology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and beyond)

For Ph.D. application, please check Emory CS programs.
For PostDoc application, please apply through the Emory Career.

Computational BehaVior and HealTh AnaLytics (ViTAL) Lab strives to develop Patient-centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that are Scalable, Accessible, and Ethical to effectively improve the Healthcare system. Our mission is to develop Edge Computing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning systems using distributed ambient, mobile, and wearable devices to monitor patients’ conditions in hospitals or everyday life. We are also invested in deploying and testing the developed AI systems in real-world clinical and daily living environments, actively collaborating with stakeholders in healthcare.

News $\mathtt{\&}$ Talks $\mathtt{\&}$ Media

2026/10/24	🎙 Dr. Kwon was invited to speak at the KSEA & KWiSE Joint Annual Conference 2026 in Atlanta, GA. He gave a talk on “A New Frontier in Brain Health: Patient-oriented Artificial Intelligence and Ubiquitous Behavior Sensing.”
2026/10/11-2026/10/15	🎙 Dr. Kwon attended UbiComp/ISWC 2026 in Shanghai, China. He served as a co-lead in organizing the Ubicomp Mental Health Workshop 2026 and a session chair for Session D1 – “Recognizing Unseen Activities”.
2026/09/28-2026/10/01	🎙 Dr. Kwon is serving as a Co-chair of the Technical Program Committee for 2026 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), hosted in Atlanta, GA.