Experience

Lecturer in Computer Science & Information Technology

La Trobe University

Continuing academic position, building research in XR, AI, Physical AI, XRMemory, and intelligent interfaces.

Senior Researcher

KAIST

Co-PI on a national Meta-Object project and System Integration Manager for a national OpenXR platform project.

NYU-KAIST Postdoc Collaboration

New York University

Developing tele-experience systems for a meta-museum between Daejeon and New York with NYU Future Reality Lab.

AR/VR Researcher

KISTI

Joint research on OpenXR and untact realistic platform technology.

Creator and Alumni

ZER01NE, Hyundai Motor Group

Developed creative research and technology projects including Holobot and Automatic SONATA.

Visiting Researcher

Ecole des Ponts ParisTech

Conducted visiting research in France during graduate study.

Global Shaper

World Economic Forum

Founding Curator of the Daejeon Hub and Vice Curator during 2023-2024.

Investment Manager Internship

Bluepoint Partners

Worked on technology venture evaluation and early-stage startup investment support.

Ph.D. in Culture Technology

KAIST

Thesis: Space-Adaptive Mutual Space Generation for Mixed Reality Remote Collaboration. Advisor: Prof. Woontack Woo.

M.S. in Culture Technology

KAIST

Graduate research in AR/VR, mixed reality collaboration, and spatial interaction.

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

KAIST

Undergraduate training in engineering systems, design, and computation.

Best Paper Award (Top 1%)

Viewpoint-Tolerant Depth Perception for Shared Extended Space Experience on Wall-Sized Display, IEEE ISMAR 2025.

Best Paper Award (Top 1%)

Visuo-Tactile Feedback with Hand Outline Styles for Modulating Affective Roughness Perception, IEEE ISMAR 2025.

NYU-KAIST Postdoc Collaboration Grant

New York University and KAIST.

Best Paper Award (Top 1%)

Spatial Affordance-aware Interactable Subspace Allocation for Mixed Reality Telepresence, IEEE ISMAR 2024.

KAIST Start-up Scholarship

KAIST Alumni Academic Scholarship Foundation.

Best Presentation Award (1st Prize)

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.

Hyundai ZER01NE Creator

Selected creator in Hyundai Motor Group's ZER01NE program.

Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%)

A user-oriented approach to space-adaptive augmentation, ACM CHI 2021.

Monash University

Invited Talk · Connecting Intelligences beyond Boundaries

Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments, University of Adelaide

Invited Talk

Department of AI Convergence and Computing, Handong Global University

Invited Talk

Korea Computer Congress (KCC)

Top-Conference Session

University of Minnesota

Redirected Walking & Spatial AI; host: Prof. Victoria Interrante

Korea Computer Congress (KCC)

Top-Conference Session

Korea Software Congress (KSC)

Top-Conference Session

HCI Korea Conference

Metaverse Research and Development Session

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia

OpenXR BoF Session

Asia-Pacific Workshop on Mixed and Augmented Reality (APMAR)

Pitch-Your-Work Session