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 9+ Ph.D. students. Finally, he is, although he no longer sounds like it, Scots.

Chiwoong Hwang (Post-doc)

Chiwoong Hwang is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST. He holds a BA in Psychology (Summa Cum Laude) from the University at Albany and an MSc in Software Development from the IT University of Copenhagen. He received his PhD from Aarhus University in 2025, where he collaborated with a Danish manufacturing company to investigate haptic interaction for industrial training in virtual reality. With an interdisciplinary background in Computer Science and Psychology, his research focuses on the human-centered development of immersive and intelligent technologies using mixed methods.

Mingyu Han (PhD Student)

Mingyu Han is a Ph.D. student at the WITlab. His recent research interests include various challenges in wearable eye-tracking systems, spanning egocentric datasets, input interaction, and gaze estimation in the wild. He builds eye-tracking hardware and systems and delivers them end-to-end to users, focusing on how human eye-gaze data can be utilized in future computing systems.

Hyunyoung Han (PhD Student)

Hyunyoung is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST. His research focuses on interactive systems and computational interaction for embodied activities grounded in user-centered design. He received his master's degree from KAIST and bachelor's degree from DGIST. He researched in the Inference, Dynamics and Interaction Group at the University of Glasgow.

More info: hynynghan.github.io

Gyeyoung Jung (PhD Student)

Gyeyoung Jung is a Ph.D. Student in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST. He completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science and Engineering at Chungnam National University. Currently, his research interests focus on wearable-based digital healthcare using head-mounted devices.

Gangtae Park (Master Student)

Gangtae Park is a second-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’.

Hohurn Jung (Master Student)

Hohurn Jung is currently working as a master student in WIT LAB under professor Ian Oakley. He achieved Bachelor’s degree at KAIST, where he double-majored in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. He previously worked as an undergraduate intern for one and a half years at WIT LAB, and continued his work as a mater student starting from 2025 fall semester. His current research is centered on designing interactive systems that leverage advanced sensing technologies.

Jieun Han (Master Student)

Jieun is a master’s student in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the same institution, double majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with a minor in Culture and Technology. She previously joined the lab as an undergraduate intern, where she studied wearable sensing technologies.

RUI ZHANG (Master Student)

Rachel(RUI ZHANG) is a master's student in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST. Her research focuses on human-computer and human-robot interaction, particularly how people naturally interact with intelligent assistants, and she is broadly interested in exploring human-AI interaction. She also enjoys working out and playing football occasionally. Additionally, she has a cute tabby cat back in her hometown^_^

Thommakoon Nitheekulawatn (Undergraduate Intern)

Thommakoon is a third-year undergraduate student at KAIST who joined WIT Lab as an intern in Winter 2025 and is currently participating in the 2026 Long-Term URP Program under WIT Lab. His research focuses on head-mounted eye-tracking systems, where he works on event detection from gaze point data, aiming to develop robust algorithms that perform reliably in real-world scenarios involving natural head movements and dynamically changing environments.

Chani Kim (Undergraduate Intern)

ChanI Kim is a second-year undergraduate student at KAIST, majoring in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mechanical Engineering. He joined the WIT Lab as an undergraduate researcher in Spring 2026. His research interests include designing novel input interactions for smart glasses and augmented reality (AR) environments, with a focus on creative algorithms. He enjoys prototyping ideas using Unity and C.

Juyoung Lee (Undergraduate Intern)

Juyoung Lee is an undergraduate student at KAIST, majoring in Computer Science. She is an undergraduate researcher at the WIT Lab. Her research interests include novel interaction techniques for VR devices, particularly hand tracking and AI-connected interaction systems. She is interested in building immersive prototypes using Unity and exploring how AI can enhance user interaction in virtual environments.

Alumni

Eunyong Cheon (2026, Post-doc)

Ammar Al-Taie (2026, Post-doc)

Jiwan Kim (2026, PhD Student)

Yonghwan Shin (2026, PhD Student / UNIST)

Eunyong Cheon (2025, PhD Student / UNIST)

Yunqiang Pei (2026, Visiting Graduate Student / UESTC)

Yilong Lin (2025, Visiting Graduate Student / SUSTech)

Wutthipat Wutthipattharatham (2026, Undergraduate Intern)

Nahyun Lee (2026, Undergraduate Intern)

Amin Jalilov (2026, Undergraduate Intern)

Yeji Park (2025, Undergraduate Intern)

Hyein Jeong (2025, Undergraduate Intern)

Dongseok Ji (2024, Undergraduate Intern)

Seunghee Han (2024, Undergraduate Intern)

Seungyun Yeom (2024, Undergraudate Intern)

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