Team

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.

Eunyong Cheon (PhD Student / UNIST)

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.

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.

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

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.