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Seonwook Park

Also known as Wookie

Seonwook Park is a computer vision researcher whose work spans gaze estimation, computational pathology, human perception, and 3D avatar systems. Originally from Seoul, he earned an MSc in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zurich and a BSc in Physics from Imperial College London before completing a computer science PhD there in June 2020 under Otmar Hilliges. At ETH, he coauthored the 2018 Deep Pictorial Gaze Estimation paper and the 2020 ETH-XGaze dataset, which gathered over one million high-resolution gaze images under extreme poses. He joined Lunit as a research scientist in July 2020, working on microscope image analysis and computational pathology; in 2023, he coauthored OCELOT, a CVPR dataset with overlapping cell and tissue annotations for cell detection. Since June 2024, he is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research in the AI-Mediated Reality and Interaction group, where he works on computer vision and human perception; he coauthored GAIA in 2025 for expression-conditioned 3D head avatars and Grounded-Exo2Ego in 2026 for first-person video generation.

Now at
NVIDIA
Works
70
Citations
2,521
h-index
21
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2018

    Deep Pictorial Gaze Estimation

    In 2018, he coauthors Deep Pictorial Gaze Estimation. Its sequential neural network predicts a pictorial representation of 3D gaze direction before estimating gaze from a single eye image.

  2. 2020

    PhD at ETH Zurich

    Originally from Seoul, he holds an MSc in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zurich and a BSc in Physics from Imperial College London. He completes his computer science PhD at ETH Zurich in June 2020 under Otmar Hilliges.

  3. 2020

    The ETH-XGaze dataset

    In 2020, he coauthors ETH-XGaze, a dataset of over one million high-resolution images under extreme head poses and gaze directions. The paper receives an ECCV Spotlight presentation.

  4. July 2020

    Research Scientist at Lunit

    He joins Lunit as a research scientist in July 2020 and works on microscope image analysis in computational pathology.

  5. 2023

    OCELOT for cell detection

    In 2023, he coauthors OCELOT, a CVPR dataset that pairs overlapping cell and tissue annotations for cell detection in pathology images.

  6. 2025

    GAIA head avatars

    In 2025, he coauthors GAIA, which generates expression-conditioned 3D head avatars for interactive animation and rendering.

  7. 2026

    Grounded-Exo2Ego video generation

    In 2026, he coauthors Grounded-Exo2Ego, a video diffusion method with two branches that generates first-person video from third-person footage using 3D reconstruction and semantic grounding.

  8. June 2024–October 2026

    NVIDIA Research Scientist

    In June 2024, he joins NVIDIA Research as a Senior Research Scientist. He works in its AI-Mediated Reality and Interaction Research Group on computer vision, machine learning, and computational human perception.

Career

  1. Since 2024NVIDIASenior Research Scientist
  2. 2021–2024Sungkyunkwan University
  3. 2020–2024LunitResearch Scientist

Education

  1. 2020ETH ZurichMSc in Computational Science and Engineering
  2. Imperial College LondonBSc in Physics

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. ETH-XGaze: A Large Scale Dataset for Gaze Estimation Under Extreme Head Pose and Gaze Variation2020 · Lecture notes in computer science · 330 citationsWith Otmar Hilliges
  2. Cross-Modal Deep Variational Hand Pose Estimation2018 · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 294 citationsWith Otmar Hilliges
  3. Artificial Intelligence–Powered Spatial Analysis of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes as Complementary Biomarker for Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer2022 · Journal of Clinical Oncology · 278 citations
  4. Few-Shot Adaptive Gaze Estimation2019 · IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 227 citationsWith Otmar Hilliges and Shalini De Mello
  5. Deep Pictorial Gaze Estimation2018 · Lecture notes in computer science · 215 citationsWith Otmar Hilliges

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

  1. 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Seonwook Park. We estimate that 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a company; 29% of moves starting at a university went to a company, and 76% ended the university role.
  2. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes NVIDIA. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.
  3. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes NVIDIA. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.
  4. Google alumni have founded or led 133 other organizations, more than any other AI labIncludes NVIDIA. We estimate that alumni of 17 major AI labs went on to found or lead 350 other organizations, including 226 they founded, and we trace 472 career moves directly between 23 labs since 2010.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Deep Pictorial Gaze Estimation | AIT Lab ait.ethz.ch. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Seonwook Park | AIT Lab ait.ethz.ch. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Seonwook Park | Research research.nvidia.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. News | Seonwook (Wookie) Park swook.net. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. ETH-XGaze: A Large Scale Dataset for Gaze Estimation under Extreme Head Pose and Gaze Variation | AIT Lab ait.ethz.ch. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Lunit Publications | Lunit Research lunit-io.github.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. GAIA: Generative Animatable Interactive Avatars with Expression-conditioned Gaussians | Research research.nvidia.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. [2608.20534] Grounded-Exo2Ego: Structured Semantic Grounding for Robust Exocentric-to-Egocentric Video Generation arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. Seonwook (Wookie) Park swook.net. Checked 21 October 2026.