Juho Kim

Juho Kim

Associate Professor
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Co-founder & CTO

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.

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, Impact Research Award, Global Research Cooperation Award, Outstanding Ethics Professor Award, Q-Day Creative Education Award, and Excellence in Teaching Award, as well as over 20 paper awards and recognitions from ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, EMNLP, etc. He gave a keynote at NeurIPS 2022 titled "Interaction-Centric AI".

Interested in working with me?

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Travel & Talks

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2025.12.04
2025.11.12
Yonsei University Medical School β€’ Guest Lecturer
2025.11.06
KAIST Center for Ambitious Failure β€’ Invited Speaker
2025.10.31
Multicampus HR Summit β€’ Keynote Speaker
2025.10.28
K-Edu Expo (APEC 2025) β€’ Invited Speaker & Panelist
2025.10.23
Samsung Electronics People Conference β€’ Keynote Speaker
2025.10.15
2025.10.07
COLM 2025: One paper β€’ Author
2025.09.28
UIST 2025: One paper & one demo β€’ Visions Co-Chair & Presenter
2025.08.22
SERICEO Lecture Series β€’ Invited Speaker
2025.04.26
CHI 2025: Four papers & four LBW papers β€’ Workshop Organizer & Presenter
2025.12.25
I redesigned my website for the first time in about 15 years!
2025.12.18
I received the 2025 College of Engineering Impact Research Award from KAIST.
2025.12.05
Saelyne, Tae Soo, and Eunyoung defend their Ph.D. theses (KIXLAB Ph.D. #5, #6, #7).
2025.11.13
I received the 2025 KAIST Global Research Cooperation Award.
2025.06.25
Hyungyu and Yoonjoo defend their Ph.D. theses (KIXLAB Ph.D. #3, #4).
2024.12.02
Seoyoung defends her Ph.D. thesis (KIXLAB Ph.D. #2).

Academic Services

β€’ Current: General Co-Chair: Festival of Learning 2026

β€’ Current: Program Co-Chair: UIST 2026

β€’ Current: Steering Committee: CSCW

β€’ Visions Co-Chair: UIST 2025

β€’ Educational Innovation Advisor: at KAIST

β€’ Subcommittee Co-Chair: CHI 2022-2023

β€’ 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

β€’ Demos Co-Chair: CSCW 2022

β€’ Late-Breaking Work Co-Chair: CHI 2021

β€’ Editor: UX of AI Forum, ACM Interactions Magazine. 2019-2022

β€’ Associate Editor: IEEE TLT. 2020-2022

β€’ Member: SIGCHI Asian Development Committee. 2019-2021

β€’ Member: SIGCHI Nomination Committee. 2020

β€’ Vice President & Advisory Board: SIGCHI Korea Chapter. 2019-2021

β€’ Vice President: HCI Society of Korea. 2019

β€’ Papers Co-Chair: CSCW 2020

β€’ Best Papers Co-Chair: CSCW 2019

β€’ Social Media Co-Chair: CHI 2020

β€’ Publicity Co-Chair: ISS 2019

β€’ Best Paper Committee: CHI 2018, CSCW 2018

β€’ Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair: HCI Korea 2018-2019

β€’ Demo Co-Chair: UIST 2017-2018

β€’ Poster Co-Chair: UIST 2015-2016

β€’ Workshop Organizer: Crowdsourcing Law and Policy (CSCW 2017), Connecting Collaborative & Crowd Work with Online Education (CSCW 2015), CrowdCamp (HCOMP 2013-2014)

β€’ Webmaster: CHI 2015

β€’ Scheduling + Communitysourcing: CHI 2013-2015, CSCW 2014-2015

Teaching

Previous Affiliations and Positions

β€’ Chief Scientist at

β€’ Assistant professor in the at

β€’ Visiting assistant professor of and Brown Fellow at , working in the and the

β€’ Ph.D. in from . Worked in the @

β€’ Research intern at

β€’ Research intern at Learning Sciences

β€’ Research intern at Adobe's

β€’ Research intern @ at the

β€’ M.S. in from . Worked in the

β€’ Product manager / embedded software engineer at in Seoul, Korea

β€’ B.S. in from