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 9+ Ph.D. students. Finally, he is, although he no longer sounds like it, Scots.
Eunyong Cheon (Post-doc)
Eunyong Cheon is currently working in the WIT Lab as a post-doc. He graduated with his PhD from UNIST in 2024 and his MSC in 2020 both under the supervision of Ian Oakley. Eunyong’s primary research focus is on ‘Usable Security,’ with specific emphasis on ‘Gesture-based Passwords’ and ‘Head Mounted Display (HMD) Authentication.’ In addition, he has worked on the use of bone-conducted audio signals as a novel biometric for wearables such as watches and smartglasses. Currently, he is engaged in the design and evaluation of in-air hand gestures, created by users to serve as passwords for HMDs.
Jiwan Kim (PhD Student)
Jiwan Kim is a second-year Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical Engineering in KAIST, advised by Professor Ian Oakley in WIT Lab. Jiwan’s research interest lies in ‘Around-device sensing on wearables’ and 'Digital Phenotyping’. Nowadays, he focuses on enabling expressive input on wearables using around-device sensing, aiming to expand interaction spaces and enhance input dimensions on wearables. He holds an M.S. and B.S. in Design and Computer Science from UNIST, and he previously visited the HCI group at Melbourne University (with Vassilis Kostakos, 2023) and the Hyper-Reality Metaverse Research Lab at ETRI (2024). His research has been published at top conferences and journals in related fields, such as CHI, UIST, UbiComp, and IJHCS.
Find out more: http://jiwan.kim/
Mingyu Han (PhD Student)
Mingyu Han is a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST, under the guidance of Professor Ian Oakley in the WIT Lab. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering at Kangwon National University and his Master’s degree in Design at UNIST. His research focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of head-wearable computing devices.
Yonghwan Shin (PhD Student / UNIST)
Yonghwan Shin is a combined Masters-PhD degree student in the Interactions lab at UNIST (from 2018). Yonghwan joined the lab in 2017 as an intern and is currently working on interaction techniques for AR. In Feb ’24, he moved to KAIST to continue and finalize his research.
Gangtae Park (Master Student)
Gangtae Park is a first-year master student at the School of Electrical Engineering in KAIST, under the guidance of Professor Ian Oakley in WIT Lab since 2025. He completed his Bachelor’s degree (Major in Electrical Engineering, minor in Industrial Design) at KAIST. His research interest lies in ‘Head Mounted Display (HMD) Interaction’.
Yilong Lin (Visiting Graduate Student / SUSTech)
Yilong Lin is a visiting student researcher at KAIST under the guidance of Professor Ian Oakley in WIT Lab and a third-year Master's student at the School of Design in SUSTech under the guidance of Professor Seungwoo Je in Immersive Design Group. Yilong’s research interests lie in wearables, haptics, and VR. Previously, he completed a Bachelor’s (Automation) at SCUT.
Find out more: https://rayleigh-lin.top
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.
Hyein Jeong (Undergraduate Intern)
Hyein is a third-year undergraduate student at KAIST majoring in electrical engineering. She joined the lab as an undergraduate intern over the winter in 2025 to explore food intake sensing through wearable devices.