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Latest updates, announcements, and achievements.

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).
2024.09.21
One EMNLP paper have been accepted. Our Interspeech paper is shortlisted for the ISCA Best Student Paper Award 2024. Our NAACL paper wins a Resource Award.
2024.06.01
Three DIS papers and one Interspeech paper have been accepted.
2023.12.12
I received a KAIST Global Research Cooperation Award.
2023.10.23
I am appointed as an Educational Innovation Advisor at KAIST, with the mission to promote AI-applied teaching and learning in the university.
2023.09.01
I received tenure from KAIST.
2023.03.07
Excited to serve on the CSCW Steering Committee
2022.12.22
Honored to receive a 2022 KIISE/IEEE-CS Young Computer Researcher Award (2022 μ Šμ€μ •λ³΄κ³Όν•™μžμƒ), awarded to an outstanding computing researcher who is 40 or under each year.
2022.04.24
More recently accepted workhsop papers: ACL Workshop paper on children's story rewriting, CHI 2022 Workshop paper on video UI with informational units, and CHI 2022 Workshop paper on search and comparison for surgery videos.
2022.04.06
Our papers are recognized by one Best Paper Award and one Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2022!
2020.12.20
Our paper "FitVid: Towards Development of Responsive and Fluid Video Content Adaptation" has been accepted for an oral presentation to the AAAI 2021 workshop "The Imagining Post-COVID Education with AI (TIPCE)".
2020.08.19
I'm serving as a Senior Program Committee Member for AAAI-21. My first time to be a SPC member for an AI conference!
2020.07.30
I'm serving on the SIGCHI Nominating Committee for the upcoming SIGCHI Executive Committee elections.
2020.06.09
Grateful to receive a Kyu-Young Whang (Professor Emeritus) Career Award from KAIST SoC.
2020.03.16
Thrilled to receive a Grand Prize for Creative Teaching as part of the Outstanding Faculty Awards in Commemoration of KAIST's 49th Anniversary of Founding
2020.03.01
Promoted to Associate Professor.
2019.05.16
Honored to serve as a papers co-chair for CSCW 2020. Many important changes to the process to be announced!
2019.02.04
Our CSCW Asia Winter School proposal is accepted and will be supported by the SIGCHI Specialized Conferences Development Fund. Dec 13 & 14 in Japan. Co-organizers: Naomi Yamashita, Hao-Chuan Wang, Hideaki Kuzuoka, & Gary Hsieh.
2018.10.09
Recent & upcoming service roles: Best paper committee @ CHI 2018 & CSCW 2018, Doctoral consortium chair @ HCI Korea 2019, PC member @ CHI 2019 & C&C 2019, Publicity chair @ ISS 2019, Social media chair @ CHI 2020
2017.06.19
Started off the summer with 10 wonderful undergrad interns!
2017.04.26
Giving a talk about Introduction to HCI at the freshmen seminar at KAIST
2016.10.04
Gave a keynote at the LG UX Conference on "Interaction at Scale"
2016.07.01
First day as faculty in SoC at KAIST! Kicking off with one Ph.D. student and five summer undergrad interns.
2015.12.18
I'll serve on the CSCW 2017 PC, in the new Systems subcommittee
2015.11.09 - 2015.11.11
2014.05.21
Thesis proposed.
2013.12.20
Gave six talks in Korea about learnersourcing (SNU, KAIST, Samsung, etc.).
2013.06.28 - 2013.07.01
Samsung Fellowship academic camp in Yosemite, CA. Presenting a poster.
2013.04.10
ToolScape talk in the graphics group in CSAIL.