ViTAL Lab

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.

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2026/03/24	🏆 BRAINS center, co-directed by Drs. Hyeok Kwon and Samaneh Nasiri, have received Black Impact Circle Award from Emory Alumni Association on “AI for Brain Health in Black Americans”. This award will support building research community and fostering mentees on advancing health equity in Black communities.
2025/12/22	🎉 Dr. Kwon co-founded Center for Brain and Behavior AI for Neurohealth Science and Support (BRAINS) with Dr. Samaneh Nasiri, where Drs. Kwon and Nasiri will serve as Co-Directors. BRAINS is dedicated to advance clinically validated, patient-centered AI to accelerate innovation, data-driven assessment, and personalized care. The center includes faculty and support from Georgia Tech, Grady Healthcare, Morehouse School of Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Emory Healthcare.
2025/12/02-2025/12/07	📖 Our paper on multi-site gait AI for Parkinson’s Disease (Care-PD) is accepted and presented at The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Neurips 2025). This is an international collaboration project involving a large team from the University of Toronto, Vector Institute, KITE Research Institute-UHN, Delft University of Technology, CNRS-University of Strasbourg, UIUC, VinUniversity, Federal University of ABC, KU Leuven, Hasselt University, Emory, and the University of Bristol.