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Ayoung Choe is a leading researcher in the field of wearable human-machine interfaces and soft bio-inspired sensors. Her work focuses on developing intelligent materials that can mimic human sensory capabilities, particularly touch and taste perception. Choe has made significant contributions to haptic interfaces, creating soft sensors and actuators that enable intuitive interaction between humans and machines. Her highly-cited 2024 paper on this topic has already garnered over 200 citations. She pioneered stretchable colorimetric patches using thermoresponsive plasmonic microgels (176 citations) and developed MXene-enhanced ferroelectric composites for highly-sensitive dynamic force sensing (137 citations). Perhaps most distinctively, Choe created an innovative hydrogel-based "artificial tongue" capable of perceiving astringency in beverages and fruits (136 citations), demonstrating practical applications for humanoid robots and taste monitoring. Her work on flexible pyroresistive graphene composites for artificial thermosensation further showcases her ability to replicate complex human sensory experiences, enabling differentiation of materials and solvent types. Choe's research sits at the intersection of materials science, robotics, and wearable technology, with her innovations promising to transform prosthetics, soft robotics, and consumer electronics through more natural, intuitive human-machine interaction.