Soo-Mi Choi is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Head of Graphics and Virtual Reality Lab at Sejong University in Seoul, Korea, and the Director of the eXtended Reality Research Center designated by the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Ewha University of Korea in 1993, 1995, and 2001, respectively. She was a visiting researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research in Germany in 1998 and a research professor at the Center for Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality of Ewha University in 2001. Then she joined the faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Sejong University in 2002. She was a visiting professor at CG Lab of ETH Zurich in Switzerland from 2008 to 2009 and the Director of the Mobile Virtual Reality Research Center supported by the Korean government from 2016 to 2021. She was awarded the Minister’s Award for Research Excellence by the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea in 2020 and received the Best Research Faculty Award from Sejong University in 2024.
Prof. Choi is currently the President of the Korea Computer Graphics Society, an ICT R&D projects review committee member of the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea, and a SIGGRAPH Asia conference advisory group member. She was the treasurer of SIGCHI's Korea chapter, a vice-president of the HCI Society of Korea, and a vice-president of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers. She organized Korea HCI 2011, Pacific Graphics 2014, ITRC Forum 2019, and ICCTARVR 2023. Her current research interests include virtual and augmented reality, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and biomedical imaging.