Academic appointments, research experience, education, invited talks, service, and selected honors.
Career
La Trobe University
Continuing academic position researching Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Centered AI, Spatial Computing, Immersive Media, and Human-AI Interaction through Interactive XR Intelligence.
KAIST
Co-PI on a national Meta-Object project and System Integration Manager for a national OpenXR platform project.
New York University
Developing tele-experience systems for a meta-museum between Daejeon and New York with NYU Future Reality Lab.
KISTI
Joint research on OpenXR and untact realistic platform technology.
ZER01NE, Hyundai Motor Group
Developed creative research and technology projects including Holobot and Automatic SONATA.
Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
Conducted visiting research in France during graduate study.
Leadership & Industry
World Economic Forum
Founding Curator of the Daejeon Hub and Vice Curator during 2023-2024.
Bluepoint Partners
Worked on technology venture evaluation and early-stage startup investment support.
Education
KAIST
Thesis: Space-Adaptive Mutual Space Generation for Mixed Reality Remote Collaboration. Advisor: Prof. Woontack Woo.
KAIST
Graduate research in AR/VR, mixed reality collaboration, and spatial interaction.
KAIST
Undergraduate training in engineering systems, design, and computation.
Recognition
Viewpoint-Tolerant Depth Perception for Shared Extended Space Experience on Wall-Sized Display, IEEE ISMAR 2025.
Visuo-Tactile Feedback with Hand Outline Styles for Modulating Affective Roughness Perception, IEEE ISMAR 2025.
New York University and KAIST.
Spatial Affordance-aware Interactable Subspace Allocation for Mixed Reality Telepresence, IEEE ISMAR 2024.
KAIST Alumni Academic Scholarship Foundation.
The effects of spatial configuration on relative translation gain thresholds in redirected walking was invited and presented at The Asia-Pacific Workshop on Mixed and Augmented Reality (APMAR) 2022.
Selected creator in Hyundai Motor Group's ZER01NE program.
A user-oriented approach to space-adaptive augmentation, ACM CHI 2021.
Invited Talks
Connecting Intelligences beyond Boundaries
Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments
Department of AI Convergence and Computing
Top-Conference Session
Redirected Walking & Spatial AI · Host: Prof. Victoria Interrante
Top-Conference Session
Top-Conference Session
Metaverse Research and Development Session
OpenXR BoF Session
Pitch-Your-Work Session
Service
Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on XRMemory (Q1, IF 5.4)
Guest Editor, Special Issue on XR for Knowledge Work and Workplace Enhancement
Sponsorship Chair
Principal Organiser, International XRMemory Workshop (2nd and 4th editions)
Assistant to General Chair & Social Event Chair, Organising Committee
Organiser and IPC, XRWorks'25 and XRStand workshops
International Program Committee
Doctoral Consortium Chair
Standardization Committee
Principal Organiser, International XRMemory Workshop (1st and 3rd editions)
International Program Committee
Program Committee
Organiser & Program Chair, 3rd International Symposium on Meta-AI for X
Organiser & Web Chair, 2nd International Symposium on Meta-AI for X
Organiser & Student Chair, 1st International Symposium on Meta-AI for X
Poster Chair, Computer Graphics & Interaction
Workshop Organiser, Metaverse+AI+XR Workshop
Poster Chair, CG/HCI/AI/Metaverse/AR/VR
Organiser, MetaMuseum Workshop
Peer Review
International Program Committee
International Program Committee