About

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Rice University, TX, USA, working with Dr. Vaibhav Unhelkar. I recieved my M.S. and B.S. degrees from Seoul National University, South Korea. Prior to joining Rice University, I worked as a research engineer at Coreline Soft - a medical AI startup - and the Agency for Defense Development - a national research institute - in South Korea.

My research centers on Human-Robot Collaboration, Human-Centered AI and Human Behavior Modeling. Specifically, I am interested in:

Modeling human behavior to develop more human-centric AI agents;
Leveraging human knowledge in machine learning to enable training with limited data; and
Complementing AI and human intelligence to enhance human-human and human-AI teamwork.

Sangwon Seo and Vaibhav V. Unhelkar, “Hierarchical Imitation Learning of Team Behavior from Heterogeneous Demonstrations,” AAMAS 2025

Sangwon Seo, Bing Han, Rayan E. Harari, Roger D. Dias, Marco A. Zenati, Eduardo Salas, and Vaibhav V. Unhelkar, “Socratic: Enhancing Human Teamwork via AI-enabled Coaching,” AAMAS 2025

Sangwon Seo and Vaibhav V. Unhelkar, “IDIL: Imitation Learning of Intent-Driven Expert Behavior,” AAMAS 2024

Sangwon Seo, “AI-Assisted Human Teamwork,” AAAI 2024 Doctoral Consortium

Sangwon Seo and Vaibhav V. Unhelkar, “Semi-Supervised Imitation Learning of Team Policies from Suboptimal Demonstrations,” IJCAI 2022

Sangwon Seo, Lauren R. Kennedy-Metz, Marco A. Zenati, Julie A. Shah, Roger D. Dias, and Vaibhav V. Unhelkar, “Towards an AI coach to infer team mental model alignment in healthcare,” CogSIMA 2021

Sangwon Seo