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.

Ammar Al-Taie (Post-doc)

Ammar is a postdoctoral researcher at the WIT lab, where he studies how people interact with various devices on the move, including while running, cycling, or driving. He completed a PhD at the University of Glasgow, where he researched how cyclists can safely interact and negotiate the right of way with automated vehicles. You can find his thesis here: theses.gla.ac.uk/85267/ . He takes a hands-on approach to research, conducting most of his studies in real-world settings using new technologies such as eye-tracking. Outside of work, Ammar enjoys running, cycling, reading graphic novels, and playing Mario Kart.

Jiwan Kim (PhD Student)

Jiwan Kim is a 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 and seamless interactions on wearables using around-device sensing technologies. He holds an M.S. and B.S. in Design and Computer Science from UNIST, and he previously visited SciFi Lab at Cornell University (with Cheng Zhang (2025)), the HCI group at Melbourne University (with Professor Vassilis Kostakos (2023)), and Hyper-Reality Metaverse Research Lab at ETRI (2024).

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.

Hyunyoung Han (PhD Student)

Hyunyoung Han is a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST. His research focuses on designing interactive systems and entertainment computing based on user-centered design methodology. He holds an M.S. in culture technology from KAIST and a B.S. in engineering from DGIST.

More info: https://sites.google.com/view/hyhan/home

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.

Nahyun Lee (Undergraduate Intern)

Nahyun Lee is a 4th-year undergraduate student at Sungkyunkwan University, pursuing a triple major in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and a self-designed major in HCI. Her previous research focused on haptics and VR/AR systems, exploring how multimodal interaction can enhance human perception and user experience. Her current research interests center on intention-aware systems and cognitive augmentation.

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.

Yunqiang Pei (Simon) (Visiting Student)

Yunqiang Pei (Simon) is a visiting PhD student in the WIT Lab at KAIST, on a one‑year program from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). His research focuses on the intersection of Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence, particularly the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with physiological signal computing to design proactive AR systems that assist users through contextual scene understanding and real‑time physiological signal analysis. His Google Scholar profile can be found here.

Alumni

Eunyong Cheon (2026, Post-doc)

Yonghwan Shin (2026, PhD Student / UNIST)

Eunyong Cheon (2025, PhD Student / UNIST)

Yilong Lin (2025, Visiting Graduate Student / SUSTech)

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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