Team
We are hiring! If you are interested in joining WIT Lab, send an email with your CV, academic transcript and a brief cover letter indicating your fit and interest in the lab's projects and work to ianoakley@kaist.ac.kr
Professor Ian Oakley
Ian Oakley is a full professor at the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in South Korea. He holds a BSc (Joint Honours First Class) in Computing Science and Psychology and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow, UK. He has worked in Ireland (MIT MediaLab Europe), Korea (GIST, ETRI, and UNIST), and Portugal (University of Madeira) and spent time as a visiting professor in Korea (KAIST) and the USA (Carnegie Mellon HCII, University of Washington iSchool). His research focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of wearable, mobile, and interactive technologies. He has published in leading conferences (such as ACM CHI, ACM UIST, ACM IMWUT, ACM CSCW and ACM TEI) and journals (such as the IJHCS and IEEE Computer). He has 15+ years of experience as a faculty member, with his time split across three continents, and has graduated 7+ Ph.D. students. Finally, he is, although he no longer sounds like it, Scots.
Jiwan Kim (PhD Student)
Jiwan Kim is a first-year Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical Engineering in KAIST, under the guidance of Professor Ian Oakley in WIT Lab. Jiwan’s research interest lies in 'Mobile sensing' and 'Digital Healthcare', specifically, 'Around Device Interaction on Wearables and 'Digital Phenotyping'. Previously, he completed a Bachelor’s (Top of the school, Human Factors and Computer Science Engineering) and a Master's degree (Design, Interaction Lab) at UNIST. Recently, he visited the HCI group at Melbourne University to collaborate with Professor Vassilis Kostakos (2023) and Hyper-Reality Metaverse Research Lab at ETRI (2024).
Find out more: http://jiwan.kim/
Eunyong Cheon (Visitor / UNIST BME PhD Student)
Eunyong Cheon is currently working in the WIT Lab as a fifth-year PhD student (from 2018). His journey at UNIST began in March 2017 when he joined the lab as an intern. He graduated with his MSC in 2020 and immediately embarked on his PhD studies. In January ’24, he was assigned to KAIST to continue and finalize his research. Eunyong’s primary research focus is on ‘Usable Security,’ with specific emphasis on ‘Gesture-based Passwords’ and ‘Head Mounted Display (HMD) Authentication.’ Currently, he is engaged in the design and evaluation of in-air hand gestures, created by users to serve as passwords for HMDs.
Jiwan Son (Graduate Intern)
Jiwan Son is a graduate intern who recently joined the WIT lab under Professor Ian Oakley. Jiwan’s research interests lie in the design and development of wearable, interactive technologies aimed at enhancing human life experience, especially VR-related experiences and multi-device interaction. She is currently working on a project for Sonar technology with a senior student member.
Amin Jalilov (Undergraduate Intern)
Amin Jalilov is a 3rd year undergraduate student from Azerbaijan at the KAIST School of Computing. He worked at the KAIST Network Security and Privacy Lab under Professor Minsuk Kang for one and a half years. He is currently working as an undergraduate intern at the KAIST WIT Lab under Professor Ian Oakley. Amin's research interests lie in security, networks, augmented reality, and operating systems. Amin majors in Computer Science and AI Special Designated Major.
Hohurn Jung(Undergraduate Intern)
Hohurn is a 4th-year student at KAIST majoring in electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. He recently joined the lab as an undergraduate intern to study hand tracking in augmented, virtual reality.
Yeji Park (Undergraduate Intern)
Yeji joined the lab in winter 2024 as undergraduate intern to explore the text entry system in virtual reality environment. She is majoring in Electrical Engineering and Design at UNIST as a bachelor’s degree student.