Ilmi Yoon
Teaching Professor, Director of Computing Programs – Silicon Valley
Research interests
- Artificial intelligence
- Computational biology
- Human-computer interaction
- Machine learning
Education
- PhD in Computer Graphics, University of Southern California
- MS in Computer Science, University of Southern California
- BS in Computer Science, Yonsei University — South Korea
Biography
Ilmi Yoon is a teaching professor and a director of computing programs in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Silicon Valley.
Yoon joined Khoury College in 2024 after two dozen years at San Francisco State University to explore a different education system that would impact more students. As an instructor for discrete structures courses in the Align program, she loves to meet students in their first semester, support their journey into computer science, and watch them grow beyond her expectations. Yoon researches human-centered AI, video accessibility, and socially responsible computing, all with the goal of engaging underrepresented and marginalized groups in computing and computing education.
Outside of academia, she loves planting, gardening, and cooking.
Recent publications
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Root Cause Analysis Training for Healthcare Professionals With AI-Powered Virtual Simulation: A Proof-of-Concept
Citation: Yuqi Hu, Qiwen Xiong, Zhenzhen Qin, Brandon Watanabe, Yujing Wang, Mirjana Prpa, Ilmi Yoon. (2025). Root Cause Analysis Training for Healthcare Professionals With AI-Powered Virtual Simulation: A Proof-of-Concept CoRR, abs/2508.04904. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.04904 -
YouDescribe: Bridging AI Efficiency and Human Insight for Scalable Audio Description
Citation: Lana Do, Sanjay Mirani, Charity Pitcher-Cooper, Xuan Duy Anh Nguyen, Alekya Bairaboina, Ilmi Yoon. (2025). YouDescribe: Bridging AI Efficiency and Human Insight for Scalable Audio Description CHIWORK (Adjunct), 10:1-10:7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3707640.3731916 -
The Benefits of Socially Responsible Computing in Early Computing Courses: A Multi-Institutional Study at Primarily Undergraduate Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Citation: Ayaan M. Kazerouni, Melissa Lee, Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, Aakash Gautam, Sahar Hooshmand, Paul Salvador Inventado, Eun-Young Kang, Jane Lehr, Yu Sun , Kevin A. Wortman, Ilmi Yoon, Zoë J. Wood. (2025). The Benefits of Socially Responsible Computing in Early Computing Courses: A Multi-Institutional Study at Primarily Undergraduate Hispanic-Serving Institutions ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 25, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3727988 -
Socially Responsible Computing in an Introductory Course
Citation: Aakash Gautam, Anagha Kulkarni , Sarah Hug, Jane Lehr, Ilmi Yoon. (2024). Socially Responsible Computing in an Introductory Course SIGCSE (1), 373-379. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630926 -
Validated Image Caption Rating Dataset
Citation: Lothar D. Narins, Andrew T. Scott, Aakash Gautam, Anagha Kulkarni , Mar Castanon, Benjamin Kao, Shasta Ihorn, Yue-Ting Siu, James M. Mason, Alexander Blum, Ilmi Yoon. (2023). Validated Image Caption Rating Dataset NeurIPS. http://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/hash/c0b91f9a3587bf35287f41dba5d20233-Abstract-Datasets_and_Benchmarks.html -
The Potential of a Visual Dialogue Agent In a Tandem Automated Audio Description System for Videos
Citation: Abigale Stangl, Shasta Ihorn, Yue-Ting Siu, Aditya Bodi, Mar Castanon, Lothar D. Narins, Ilmi Yoon. (2023). The Potential of a Visual Dialogue Agent In a Tandem Automated Audio Description System for Videos ASSETS, 32:1-32:17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3608402
