Juho Kim
Associate Professor
School of Computing,
KAIST
Co-founder & CTO
SkillBench
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N1 Room 605, KAIST
291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu
Daejeon, Korea 34141
Tel: (+82)-042-350-3570
Juho Kim is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST, and directs KIXLAB (the KAIST Interaction Lab). He is Co-Founder and CTO at SkillBench, Inc. He is also affiliated faculty in the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI.
His research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-AI Interaction focuses on Interaction-Centric AI: designing transparent, controllable, and collaborative AI systems. His team builds interactive technologies that empower people to learn, create, and decide with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI at scale.
He earned his Ph.D. from MIT, M.S. from Stanford University, and B.S. from Seoul National University. In 2015-2016, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor and a Brown Fellow at Stanford University. He is a recipient of a KIISE/IEEE-CS Young Computer Researcher Award, KAIST's Songam Distinguished Research Award, Grand Prize in Creative Teaching, Q-Day Creative Education Award, and Excellence in Teaching Award, as well as nearly 20 paper awards from ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, ACM Learning at Scale, ACM IUI, ACM DIS, and AAAI HCOMP. He recently spent his sabbatical year as a chief scientist at Ringle Inc., translating his research on AI-powered analysis and diagnosis of English learners' proficiency into a scalable product. He gave a keynote at NeurIPS 2022 titled "Interaction-Centric AI".
If you're interested in working with me at KAIST, please read this page. Also, in this interview video for HCI Korea, I summarize KIXLAB's representative projects and share my thoughts on research and mentoring. English transcription is available.
Video of my recent talks on "Interaction-Centric AI": (1) NeurIPS 2022 keynote (targeted at AI audience), (2) Stanford HCI Seminar (targeted at HCI audience)
Travel & Talks
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• Current: General Co-Chair for Festival of Learning 2026
• Current: Program Co-Chair for UIST 2026
• Current: CSCW Steering Committee
• Visions Co-Chair: UIST 2025
• Educational Innovation Advisor at KAIST
• Subcommittee Co-Chair: CHI 2022-2023
• Program Committee: CHI 2018-2019 & 2021, AAAI 2021 (SPC), CSCW 2017-2019, Learning at Scale 2015-2020, TheWebConf 2022, SIGCSE 2022, HCOMP 2016 & 2020, Creativity & Cognition 2019, Collective Intelligence 2019, UIST 2017, CHI 2015 WIP
• Demos Co-Chair: CSCW 2022
• Late-Breaking Work Co-Chair: CHI 2021
• Editor: UX of AI Forum, ACM Interactions Magazine. 2019-2022
• Associate Editor: IEEE TLT. 2020-current
• Member: SIGCHI Asian Development Committee. 2019-2021
• Member: SIGCHI Nomination Committee. 2020
• Vice President & Advisory Board: SIGCHI Korea Chapter. 2019-current
• Vice President: HCI Society of Korea. 2019
• Papers Co-Chair: CSCW 2020
• Best Papers Co-Chair: CSCW 2019
• Social Media Co-Chair: CHI 2020
• Publicity Co-Chair: ISS 2019
• Best Paper Committee: CHI 2018, CSCW 2018
• Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair: HCI Korea 2018-2019
• Demo Co-Chair: UIST 2017-2018
• Poster Co-Chair: UIST 2015-2016
• Workshop Organizer: Crowdsourcing Law and Policy (CSCW 2017), Connecting Collaborative & Crowd Work with Online Education (CSCW 2015), CrowdCamp (HCOMP 2013-2014)
• Webmaster: CHI 2015
• Scheduling + Communitysourcing: CHI 2013-2015, CSCW 2014-2015
Teaching
• On teaching leave from 2024 due to my startup
• Fall 2023 [CS492G] Human-AI Interaction
• Fall 2023 [CS473] Introduction to Social Computing
• Spring 2023 [CS374] Introduction to HCI
• Fall 2021 [CS473] Introduction to Social Computing
• Fall 2021 [CoE491] AI for Smart Life
• Spring 2021 [CS492E] Human-AI Interaction
• Spring 2021 [CS374] Introduction to HCI
• Fall 2020 [CS473] Introduction to Social Computing
• Fall 2020 [CS492F] Human-AI Interaction
• Spring 2020 [CS492D] Introduction to Research
• Spring 2020 [CS374] Introduction to HCI
• Fall 2019 [CS473] Introduction to Social Computing
• Spring 2019 [CS492C] Introduction to Research
• Spring 2019 [CS374] Introduction to HCI
• Fall 2018 [CS473] Introduction to Social Computing
• Fall 2018 [CS492C] Introduction to Research
• Fall 2018 [CS408F] Computer Science Project
• Spring 2018 [CS374] Introduction to HCI
• Spring 2018 [CS408E] Computer Science Project
• Fall 2017 [CS492] Crowdsourcing and Social Computing
• Spring 2017 [CS374] Introduction to HCI
• Spring 2017 [CS966/986] SoC Colloquium
• Fall 2016 [CS492] Crowdsourcing
Previous Affiliations and Positions
• Chief Scientist at Ringle, Inc.
• Assistant professor in the School of Computing at KAIST
• Visiting assistant professor of Computer Science and Brown Fellow at Stanford University, working in the Brown Institute and the HCI Group
• Ph.D. in EECS from MIT. Worked in the UID Group @ CSAIL
• Research intern at Microsoft Research
• Research intern at edX Learning Sciences
• Research intern at Adobe's Creative Technologies Lab
• Research intern @ USER Group at the IBM Almaden Research Center
• M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Worked in the HCI Group
• Product manager / embedded software engineer at SystemBase in Seoul, Korea
• B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University