INVITED TALKS (not including peer-reviewed conference presentations)

  • Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY, USA, May 2026. 
    • “In Their Shoes, In Mine—and On My Terms”
  • KSEN 2026 (The 46th Korean Society Exercise Nutrition Spring Conference; 한국운동영양학회춘계학술대회). Seoul, South Korea, April 2026. Keynote Speech.
      • “Actionable Personal Health Systems in the AI Era: Exercise, Sleep, Nutrition, and Mind (AI 시대의 실천 가능한 개인 건강 시스템: 운동, 수면, 영양, 그리고 마음)”
    • Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. College Station, TX, USA, October 2025.
      • “Actionable Life for Everyone: Principled Bespoke Generation of Real-Life Common Norms”
    • University of Texas at Austin, School of Information. Austin, TX, USA, October 2025. 
      • “Actionable Life for Everyone: Principled Bespoke Generation of Real-Life Common Norms”
    • UNIST, Department of Design. Ulsan, South Korea, June 2025.
      • “Actionable Life for Everyone: Principled Bespoke Generation of Real-Life Common Norms”
    • Keio University (Shonan Fujisawa Campus), POSTECH-Keio Joint Workshop. Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan, April 2025.
      • “Human-centered Intelligent Systems for Pervasive Human Values”
    • KAIST, Graduate School of Information Security. Daejeon, South Korea, November 2024.
      • “Principled Bespoke Generation of Real-Life Common Norms”
    • Samsung Global Technology Conference, Busan, South Korea, September 2024.
      • “Next-generation Personal Assistant”
    • KCC 2024 CG&I Workshop. Jeju, South Korea, June 2024.
      • “Principled Generative Personalization of Everyday Guidelines”
    • KRnet 2024 (The 32nd Korea Internet Conference). Seoul, South Korea, June 2024.
      • “Bespoke Learning & Assessment with Gen AI”
    • Open Turing 2024 (a public lecture series on Turing Award laureates co-organized by POSTECH, KAIST, and SNU). Seoul, South Korea, May 2024.
      • “2003 Turing Award Laureate: Alan C. Kay”
    • HSN 2024 (The 34th HSN: Hyper-converged Services and iNfrastructures). Jeju, South Korea, January 2024.
      • “Bespoke Computing for Your As-is Real Life”
    • POSTECH & KITA: AI Executive Program. Trade Tower, Seoul, South Korea, November 2023.
      • “Intelligent Mobile Systems and Applications”
    • KAIST, School of Computing. Daejeon, South Korea, November 2023. 
      • “Bespoke Computing for Your As-is Real Life”
    • KRnet 2023 (The 31st Korea Internet Conference). Seoul, South Korea, May 2023.
      • “AI-to-Human Actuation: Boosting Unmodified AI’s Robustness by Mimicking Human Ways”
    • Handong Global University, School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Pohang, South Korea, May 2023. 
      • : “Computing with Real Human Life As-is”
    • University of Texas at Dallas, Dept. of Computer Science. February 2023, Dallas, TX, USA. 
      • “Real-life as Applications: Bringing to Another Level via Hyper-personalization”
    • EIRIC (Electronic & Information Research Information Center). Virtual Presence, September 2022.
      • “Human-centered Intelligent Systems: Augmenting Your Life As-is”
    • Delight Room Co., Ltd. Seoul, South Korea, August 2022.
      • “Real-life Actionable Personalized Sleep Planning”
    • Software Disaster Research Center. Pohang, South Korea, July 2022.
      • “Human-centered Intelligent Systems: Augmenting Your Life As-is”
    • 2022 KICS Spring Conference (Korean Institutes of Communications and Information Sciences Conference). Jeju, South Korea, June 2022.
      • “Mobile-embedded AI for Facilitating Family Interaction in Everyday Life”
    • ACM HotEdgeVideo 2021 (The 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Video Analytics and Intelligent Edges). New Orleans, LA, USA, March 2022. Keynote Speech.
      • “Life-immersive AI for Family Interaction across Space and Time”
    • KRnet 2021 (The 29th Korea Internet Conference). Virtual Presence, June 2021.
      • “Telepresence and Extended Reality: Extending Reality with Yet Another Reality”
    • JCCI 2021 (The 31st Joint Conference on Communications and Information). Busan, South Korea, April 2021. 
      • “Mobile Human-AI Interaction Use Cases”
    • Yonsei University, School of Integrated Technology. Virtual Presence, April 2021.
      • “Inter-personal Computing: Towards Augmented Real-world Social Life”
    • POSTECH, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering & Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series. Pohang, South Korea, March 2021.
      • “Inter-personal Computing: Towards Augmented Real- Life”
    • HSN 2021 (The 31st High-Speed Network Workshop), Seoul, South Korea, January 2021.
      • “Next-generation Telepresence for Seamless Contact & Untact Fusion”
    • KAIST, School of Computing. Daejeon, South Korea, November 2020.
      • “Life-immersive Systems Tunneling New Interpersonal Pathways to Fortify Social Bonds”
    • Seoul National University, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering. Seoul, South Korea, October 2018.
      • "Mobile Systems Augmenting Co-located Human Interaction: One into Many, and Many into One"
    • Ajou University, Dept. of Software and Computer Engineering. Suwon, South Korea, October 2018.
      • "Mobile Systems Augmenting Co-located Human Interaction: One into Many, and Many into One"
    • KAIST, School of Computing. Daejeon, South Korea, May 2018.
      • "One Soul to Rule Them All: Towards Multipresence of Self Through Tangible Intelligent Avatars"
    • Seoul National University, Dept. of Communication. Seoul, South Korea, May 2018. 
      • "Life-immersive Systems Transcending In-situ Interpersonal Interactivity"
    • ICTC 2016 (International Conference on ICT Convergence), Jeju, South Korea, October 2016.
      • "A Single-Smartphone Platform for Ubiquitous Near-Surface 3D Input Space on Everyday Surfaces"
    • Seoul National University, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Seoul, South Korea, October 2016. 
      • "Mobile Sensory Systems Empowering Human Interactivity in Our Everyday Real-world Life"
    • Michigan State University, Trifecta Initiative. East Lansing, Michigan, United States, March 2015. 
      • “Mobile Opportunities to Enrich Social Wellbeing and Health: Life Immersive Social Boosters Augmenting Microscopic Interpersonal Interaction”
    • University of Tokyo, Department of Mechano-Informatics. Japan, December 2014.
      • "Mobile Opportunities to Enrich Real-world Social Life by Leveraging Microscopic Interpersonal Interactions"
    • IBM Research Austin, Texas, United States, November 2013.
      • "Socially Leveraged Sensing to Advance Life-Immersive Mobile Applications"
    • Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland, November 2013.
      • "A Step towards Socio-Physical Computing: Social Facilitation Systems in People-centric Smart Space"
    • NTU (Nanyang Technological Univ.), School of Computer Engineering. Singapore, September 2013.
      • "Collaborative In-situ Interaction Monitoring to Reinforce Everyday Clinical Training for People with Language Delay"
    • SMU (Singapore Management Univ.), School of Information Systems. Singapore, September 2013.
      • "Mobile Social-interaction Sensing Initiative toward Everyday Clinical Support for Language Delay"
    • Google Zürich, Switzerland, August 2012.
      • "Group-wide Behavior Monitoring in Kindergarten: Field Studies on the Behavioral Relativeness of Young Children in Shared Social Situations"

    PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

    • IBM Global Technology Outlook 2019 (GTO-19) Advocate for IBM Research - Austin, from January 2018 to December 2018.
    • Research Assistant Professor, Center for Mobile Software Platform, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, from March 2013 to July 2014.
    • Graduate Researcher, Computer Science, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, from September 2002 to February 2013
    • Intern, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA, from January 2004 to September 2004.
      • Researches on distributed sensor networks and intelligent energy-efficient large-scale monitoring
    • Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, from March 2001 to December 2003
    • Intern, Hanaro Telecom Internet Data Center, Seoul, Korea, from July 2000 to Aug. 2000. 
      • Large-scale maintenance and monitoring of server clusters
    • Research Trainee, Advanced Technology Training Institute, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea, August 1999.
      • Development of a portable gaming device with FPGA technology
    • President of Students, Electrical Engineering, KAIST, from March 2000 to February 2001.
      • Services as the representative of undergraduates in the department of electrical engineering, KAIST.
    • Exchange Student, University of California at Berkeley, California, U.S.A., in 1998. 
      • With a full scholarship funded by KAIST 

    TECHNICAL TRANSLATIONS

    • "The Art of Unit Testing with Examples in .NET". Insight Press, 2010. ISBN 978-89-91268852. (originally authored by Roy Osherove)
    • "Pro JavaScript Techniques". Insight Press, 2008. ISBN 978-89-91268432. (originally authored by John Resig)
    • "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide". Insight Press, 2008. ISBN 978-89-91268418. (originally authored by David Flanagan)
    • "Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer". Insight Press, 2006. ISBN 978-89-91268142. (originally authored by Justin Gehtland, Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer)

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