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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Han‐Seok Seo

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High Impact

Full Professor

Also affiliated: Korea National University of Transportation (2016); National Institutes of Health (2000); Seoul National University (2007–2009); Hanseo University (2021); Korea University (2024–2025); University of Arkansas System (2022); Sejong University (2023); Kyung Hee University (2026); University of California San Diego (2024); National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (2000); Taste and Smell Clinic (2008–2010); National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (2008); University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2000); Technische Universität Dresden (2014–2015)

Faculty Researcher

Agricultural Communication Services

41 h-index 191 pubs 5,604 cited

  • Humans
  • Male
  • Female
  • Odorants
  • Adult
  • Taste
  • Young Adult
  • Middle Aged
  • Smell
  • Food Preferences
  • Olfactory Perception
  • Adolescent
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Emotions
  • Aged

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Han-Seok Seo is a Full Professor in Agricultural Communication Services at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His research interests encompass machine learning, sensory perception, and the application of advanced computational techniques to diverse fields, including human-computer interaction and food science. Seo has a scholarly record marked by a high h-index of 41 and over 5,500 citations across 191 publications.

His recent work includes publications on natural language processing with Micron-BERT for facial micro-expression recognition and DirecFormer for action recognition. He has also investigated the impact of flavor enhancers on pet food palatability and explored the sensory aspects of food perception influenced by cognitive styles. Seo's research extends to the development of novel sensor technologies, such as a sensory nervous system-inspired multifunctional sensor utilizing silver nanomaterials. He collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas, including Ky Luu, Asmita Singh, Thadeus L. Beekman, and Ragita C. Pramudya, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 41
  • Publications: 191
  • Citations: 5,604

Selected Publications

  • Seeing the grain: How transparent window size influences purchase intention and visual attention in rice packaging (2026)
    Food Research International DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluating the Color of Chocolate Chip Cookies: Comparative Performance of Instrumental Colorimetry, Digital Image Analysis, and Computer Vision Relative to Human Perception (2026)
    Journal of Food Science DOI OpenAlex
  • Impact of Electron Beam (eBeam) Treatment on Meat Quality and Sensory Attributes of Ground Chicken and Turkey (2026)
    Poultry Science DOI OpenAlex
  • Descriptive Sensory Analysis of Gluten-Containing and Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies Available in the Marketplace (2025)
    Foods 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Comparison Analyses of Consumer Acceptance, Evoked Emotions, and Purchase Intent Between Gluten‐Containing Versus Gluten‐Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Products (2025)
    Journal of Food Science 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Variations in Sensory and Emotional Responses to Gluten‐Containing and Gluten‐Free Cookie Products Under Blind and Labeled Conditions (2025)
    Journal of Food Science 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • SoGAR: Self-Supervised Spatiotemporal Attention-Based Social Group Activity Recognition (2025)
    IEEE Access 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Measuring palatability of pet food products: Sensory components, evaluations, challenges, and opportunities (2024)
    Journal of Food Science 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • “Spicy Touch”: Cross-modal associations between hand-feel touch and capsaicin-induced oral irritation (2024)
    Food Research International 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Impacts of hearing loss on social dining: Perceptions and acceptance of food and eating environments, and engagements (2024)
    Food Quality and Preference 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Is human perception reliable? Toward illumination robust food freshness prediction from food appearance — Taking lettuce freshness evaluation as an example (2024)
    Journal of Food Engineering 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Video-Based Autism Detection with Deep Learning (2024)
    16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Sustainability information, taste perception and willingness to pay: The case of bird-friendly coffee (2024)
    Food Quality and Preference 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Analytic-holistic cognitive styles affect consumer responses to food and beverage samples during sensory evaluation (2023)
    Current Research in Food Science 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of polyphenol-rich grape seed and green tea extracts on the physicochemical properties of 3D-printed edible soy protein films (2023)
    Food Packaging and Shelf Life 49 citations DOI OpenAlex

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