Hee Jeong Han

Ph.D Candidate in Informatics

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About Me


I am a Ph.D Candidate in the College of Informatics Science and Technology at Penn State University. I am working with Dr. Saeed Abdullah at the Well-being and Health Innovation Lab.

News


Education


Pennsylvania State University

Doctor of Philosophy in Informatics
Aug. 2020 - Present

  • Advisor: Saeed Abdullah

University of California, Irvine

Master of Science in Computer Science
Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2019

  • Advisor: Nikil Dutt
  • Thesis title: Objective Stress Monitoring based on Wearable Sensors in Everyday Settings

Ewha Womans University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
Mar. 2012 - Feb. 2017

  • Advisor: Dong Sub Cho
  • ABEEK (Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea)

Publications


Preliminary Evaluation of a Conversational Agent to Support Self-management of Individuals Living with PTSD: An Interview Study with Clinical Experts

Hee Jeong Han, Sanjana Mendu, Beth K Jaworski, Jason E Owen, and Saeed Abdullah
in JMIR Formative Research, 7, e45894 2023
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Automatic Classification of Dementia using Text and Speech data

Hee Jeong Han, Suhas BN, Ling Qiu, and Saeed Abdullah
in Multimodal AI in Healthcare, pp. 399-407. Springer, Cham 2023
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PTSDialogue: Designing a Conversational Agent to Support Individuals with Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder

Hee Jeong Han, Sanjana Mendu, Beth K Jaworski, Jason E Owen, and Saeed Abdullah
in Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp '21) 2021
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Objective stress monitoring based on wearable sensors in everyday settings

Hee Jeong Han, Sina Labbaf, Jessica L. Borelli, Nikil Dutt, and Amir M. Rahmani
in Journal of Medical Engineering \& Technology 44, no. 4: 177-189, 2020
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Pedestrian Management System for Real-time Pedestrian Detection

Hee Jeong Han, Miso Kwon, You Hyun Kang, Dong Sub Cho
in Proceedings of Korea Multimedia Society Conference of the Spring, 2016

  • Best Paper Award
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Pedestrian Pattern Classification For the Pedestrian Counting Systems using Key Matrix

Hee Jeong Han, You Hyun Kang, Miso Kwon, Dong Sub Cho
in Proceedings of Korea Computer Congress, 2016

  • Best Paper Award
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Pedestrian Safety Management Systems based on Multiple-input enabled F-pad

Hee Jeong Han, You Hyun Kang, Miso Kwon, Dong Sub Cho
in Proceedings of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers(KIEE) Summer Conference, 2016
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Analysis of Pedestrian Pattern for Pedestrian Counting Systems

You Hyun Kang, Miso Kwon, Hee Jeong Han, Dong Sub Cho
in Proceedings of The 2016 Spring Conference of the Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS), 2016
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Adaptive for time-varing clustering DBSCAN

Miso Kwon, You Hyun Kang, Hee Jeong Han, Dong Sub Cho
in Proceedings of 2016 Information and Control Symposium, 2016

Research Experience


Penn State University

Wellbeing & Health Innovation (WHI) Lab

College of Informatics Science and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
Aug. 2020 - Present

Graduate Research Assistant

  • PTSDialogue - A conversational agent to sustain patient engagement in PTSD
    • Develops a conversational agent that can deliver therapeutic content and provide supportive accountability in PTSD and assesses feasibility and acceptability of the developed conversational agent for sustaining engagement with patients with PTSD.
University of California, Irvine

Dutt Research Group

Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
Jun. 2018 - Jul. 2019

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Healthcare IoT - Ubiquitous Stress Monitoring using Shimmer’s Device
    • Proposed a new stress monitoring system. Its algorithm, using PPG, ECG and GSR sensors on wearable device, predicts stress level in everyday settings.
Ewha Womans University

Computer Architecture and System Design Laboratory

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University
Aug. 2015 - Jun. 2016

Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Multimodal Pedestrian Counting System using Key-Matrix pad and Sonic-Bar
    • Proposed new pedestrian counting system. It contains two algorithms, Adaptive-DBSCAN and Pedestrian Algorithm. and two new hardwares, F-pad and Sonic-Bar.

Projects


PTSDialogue - A conversational agent to sustain patient engagement in PTSD

Aug. 2020 - Present

Develops a conversational agent that can deliver therapeutic content and provide supportive accountability in PTSD and assesses feasibility and acceptability of the developed conversational agent for sustaining engagement with patients with PTSD.

Detecting Mental Health Symptoms From Text Data Enhanced by ChatGPT

Jan. 2023 - Present

Built a deep learning-based model to assess mental health symptoms from text data. The model achieved 90.4% accuracy. Also, the model will be enhanced by labels generated by ChatGPT after evaluating the accuracy of the annotations.

Automatic Classification of Dementia using Text and Speech data

Feb. 2022 - Mar. 2022

Built an ensemble model with two deep learning-based architectures for text and speech analysis. The model achieved 89.8% accuracy when classifying individuals with dementia and health controls.

WiSDoM: Guiding Internet Users Toward Safer PrivacyDecisions

Jan. 2021 - Jun. 2021

Built a Chrome extension tool that informs users about their disclosing behaviors. It is powered by a BERT-based objective disclose detection model.

Healthcare IoT - Ubiquitous Stress Monitoring using Shimmer's Device

Jun. 2018 - Jul. 2019

Proposed a new stress monitoring system. Its algorithm, using PPG, ECG and GSR sensors on wearable device, predicts stress level in everyday settings.

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