Eun Kyoung Choe is an Associate Professor in the College of Information at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Her research bridges the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Health Informatics, and Ubiquitous Computing. Envisioning an inclusive health future, she designs and studies technologies that empower individuals to collect, explore, and act on their personal data to make informed, personalized health decisions and support their health and well-being.
Her work has been supported by the NSF's CRII, CAREER, and Medium awards, NIH's R01, NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea), and Microsoft Research. She serves on the editorial boards of ACM TOCHI (2025–) and Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction (2020–), and previously served on the editorial board of PACM IMWUT (2017-2023). She co-chaired the Health Subcommittee for CHI (2021-2023), and is serving as Technical Program Committee Co-chair for UbiComp 2026.
She received 13 Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards at premier venues including CHI, CSCW, and UbiComp. In 2025, she was named an ACM Distinguished Member in recognition of her contributions to personal informatics.
Dr. Choe earned her BS in Industrial Design from KAIST, MS in Information Management and Systems from the University of California, Berkeley, and PhD in Information Science from the University of Washington, where she was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2024.