Dec 02, 2025
🎉 3rd XRMemory workshop will be held on March 22nd (Sunday) morning session at @IEEE VR 2026! [Link]
Connecting all intelligence beyond boundaries
3
Best Paper
Awards
(Top 1%)
(Top 1%)
25+
Publications
$9M+
Grants Led
9
Patents
Latest News
Jan 27, 2026
🎉 Four IEEE TVCG papers from co-advised students have been accepted and will be presented at IEEE VR 2026!
Oct 11, 2025
🏆🏆 Two Best Paper Awards (Top 1%) at IEEE ISMAR 2025!
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Nov 10, 2025
🎉 Wrote a Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) Newsletter on XRMemory! [Link]
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Nov 07, 2025
🎉 My three Award Achievements have been featured in an article! [Link]
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Nov 03, 2025
🎉 Appointed as the Lead Guest Editor for the special issue "XRMemory" of the Springer Virtual Reality Journal!
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Oct 08, 2025
🍻 Organized So-Maek (Soju + Beer) social event as the ISMAR Social Event Chair.
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Aug 30, 2025
🎉 Successfully Held 2nd Jibang (Local City) Forum as a Global Shaper in Daejeon! [Link]
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Jul 21, 2025
📘 IEEE CG&A journal (SCIE) paper published! - Coined the concept of a Meta-Object.
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Jul 11, 2025
📙 Approval of Preliminary Work Item (PWI) in the 2025 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 international standardization meeting!
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Jun 20, 2025
🎉 Successfully Held 3rd KAIST-NYU Joint ISMAX Symposium about MetaMuseum in NYC! [Link]
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Jun 08, 2025
🗽 Visiting research @NYU FRL with Ken Perlin! [Link]
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Apr 01, 2025
✨ Serving a role as an Assistant to the General Chairs and Social Event Chair of IEEE ISMAR 2025!
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Mar 09, 2025
🎉 1st XRMemory workshop @IEEE VR 2025 as a principal organizer! - Coined the concept of an XRMemory. [Link]
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Jan 13, 2025
📺 KBS News, From "No-Fun City" to "New-Fun Daejeon" through Metaverse [Link]
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Oct 23, 2024
🏆 Best Conference Paper Award (1st Prize) @IEEE ISMAR 2024!
Research Projects
Co-PI
2024 - Present
Meta-Object
Leading grant proposal and directing 40 researchers across 8 teams. Defining and developing a meta-object (next generation virtual object).
System Manager
2021 - Present
OpenXR: TranSpace 3.0
System Integration Manager for untact realistic OpenXR remote collaboration platform for over 100 concurrent users and heterogeneous devices.
Project Leader
2025 - Present
Meta-Museum
Leading international collaboration with NYU Future Reality Lab. Building a next-generation metaverse museum across space and time.
Research Assistant
2019 - 2020
TranSpace 2.0
Ultra-realistic remote virtual interaction for MR collaboration.
Research Assistant
2019
Visual Cognition in MR
Reinforcement of visual cognitive abilities for MR remote collaboration.
Experience
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Senior Researcher @ KAIST
Co-PI on $3M national project on Meta-Object & System Integration Manager for $6M national project on OpenXR platform.
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NYU-KAIST Postdoc Collaboration @ New York University
Tele-experience system for meta-museum between Daejeon (Korea) and New York (US) | Collaborating with NYU Future Reality Lab (Ken Perlin).
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Global Shaper @ World Economic Forum
Founding Curator of Daejeon Hub, Vice Curator (2023-2024). Global Shapers Community is an initiative of the World Economic Forum, connecting inspiring young leaders under 30 to drive dialogue, action, and change.
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Research Assistant @ KISTI
Joint research on OpenXR: Untact Realistic Platform Technology.
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Creator & Alumni @ ZER01NE (Hyundai Motor Group)
[Holobot, 2022] XR Social Interface Robot with Holographic Avatar for Tele-presence System
[Automatic SONATA, 2021] A Scenery Style-Transfer System for Autonomous Vehicles
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Visiting Researcher @ Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (France)
Conducted research at Imagine Lab under Prof. Vincent Lepetit.
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Investment Manager Internship @ Bluepoint Partners
Research and Investment Review in the Mechanical Engineering & Autonomous Vehicles Field
Refereed Publications & Patents
- 🏆 Viewpoint-Tolerant Depth Perception for Shared Extended Space Experience on Wall-Sized Display
- 🏆 Visuo-Tactile Feedback with Hand Outline Styles for Modulating Affective Roughness Perception
- Spatial Affordance-Aware Affine Transformation Between Heterogeneous Spaces for Mixed Reality Remote Collaboration
- SceneLinker: Compositional 3D Scene Generation via Semantic Scene Graph from RGB Sequences
- Task Breakpoint Generation using Origin-Centric Graph in Virtual Reality Recordings for Adaptive Playback
- Int3DNet: Scene–Motion Cross Attention Network for 3D Intention Prediction in Mixed Reality
- Meta-Objects: Interactive and Multisensory Virtual Objects Learned From the Real World for Use in Augmented Reality
- Spatio-Temporal Mixed and Augmented Reality Experience Description for Interactive Playback
- RealityCrafter: User-guided Editable 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image in Mixed Reality
- An Overview of the 1st International Workshop on Spatial Memory in XR (XRMemory)
- Human-Scene Interaction Data Generation with Virtual Environment using User-Centric Scene Graph
- 🏆 Spatial Affordance-aware Interactable Subspace Allocation for Mixed Reality Telepresence
- Object cluster registration of dissimilar rooms using geometric spatial affordance graph to generate shared virtual spaces
- 🏆 The effects of spatial configuration on relative translation gain thresholds in redirected walking
- Edge-Centric Space Rescaling with Redirected Walking for Dissimilar Physical-Virtual Space Registration
- Effects of avatar transparency on social presence in task-centric mixed reality remote collaboration
- Exploration of the virtual reality teleportation methods using hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and EEG
- Mutual space generation with redirected walking for asymmetric remote collaboration
- Holobot: Hologram based extended reality telepresence robot
- The effects of spatial complexity on narrative experience in space-adaptive AR storytelling
- The effects of device and spatial layout on social presence during a dynamic remote collaboration task in mixed reality
- Effects of Virtual Room Size and Objects on Relative Translation Gain Thresholds in Redirected Walking
- Mutual space generation with relative translation gains in redirected walking for asymmetric remote collaboration
- Art Rich: Place Your AR Artwork
- Bring store in my room: AR store authoring system for spatial experience in mobile shopping
- CARDS: Comprehensive AR Docent System
- 🏅 A user-oriented approach to space-adaptive augmentation: The effects of spatial affordance on narrative experience in an augmented reality detective game
- Adjusting Relative Translation Gains According to Space Size in Redirected Walking for Mixed Reality Mutual Space Generation
- Multi-scale mixed reality collaboration for digital twin
- (KR/PCT) METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING REMOTE COLLABORATION MUTUAL SPACE. ISSUED.
- (KR/US) VIRTUAL REALITY SPACE ADJUSTING METHOD WITH RELATIVE TRANSLATION GAIN IN REDIRECTED WALKING AND THE SYSTEM THEREOF. ISSUED.
- (KR) METHOD OF OPERATING MIXED REALITY TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM AND MIXED REALITY TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM. ISSUED.
- (KR/US) EDGE-CENTRIC SPACE RESCALING METHOD FOR DISSIMILAR SPACE REGISTRATION AND THE SYSTEM THEREOF. FILED.
- (KR) A SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME AFFORDANCE VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION WITH META-OBJECTS BASED ON DYNAMIC USER CONTEXT. FILED.
- (KR/US) OBJECT CLUSTER REGISTRATION OF DISSIMILAR ROOMS USING GEOMETRIC SPATIAL AFFORDANCE GRAPH TO GENERATE SHARED VIRTUAL SPACES. FILED.
- (KR) SPATIAL EXTENSION USING HUMAN STEREOSCOPIC PERCEPTION WITH A LARGE WALL DISPLAY. FILED.
- (KR) METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING MIXED AND AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERIENCES USING A SPATIO-TEMPORAL MIXED AND AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTION. FILED.
- (KR) IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING VIDEO PROCESSED THEREFROM. FILED.
- (Dec 2025) Undergoing New Proposal (NP) Ballot in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 ("Spatio-Temporal Mixed and Augmented Reality Experience Description (MAR-ED) for Adaptive Playback").
- (Jul 2025) Approval of Preliminary Work Item (PWI) in the 2025 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 International Standardization Meeting ("Spatio-Temporal Mixed and Augmented Reality Experience Description (MAR-ED) for Adaptive Playback").
Education
PhD in Culture Technology (AR/VR)
Thesis: Space-Adaptive Mutual Space Generation for Mixed Reality Remote Collaboration (Advisor: Woontack Woo)
Master in Culture Technology (AR/VR)
Thesis: Adjusting relative translation gains according to space size in redirected walking for mixed reality mutual space generation (Advisor: Woontack Woo)
Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering
* 2026 Fall - Exchange Student @Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Honors & Awards
- Two Best Paper Awards (Top 1%) - IEEE ISMAR (2025)
- NYU-KAIST Postdoc Collaboration Grant - New York University (2025)
- Best Conference Paper Award (1st Prize) - IEEE ISMAR (2024)
- KAIST Start-up Scholarship - KAIST Alumni Academic Scholarship Foundation (2023)
- Best Presentation Award (1st Prize) - APMAR (2022)
- NCSOFT PhD Scholarship - NCSOFT (2022)
- Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%) - ACM CHI (2021)
Service & Activities
Organizing & Chairing
- 2026 IEEE VR: Organizing Committee (Standardization Committee)
- 2026 IEEE VR: 3rd XRMemory Workshop Principal Organizer
- 2025 IEEE ISMAR: Organizing Committee (Assistant for General Chair & Social Event Chair)
- 2025 IEEE ISMAR: 2nd XRMemory Workshop Principal Organizer | XRWorks'25 Workshop Organizer | XRStand Workshop IPC
- 2025 IEEE VR: 1st XRMemory Workshop Principal Organizer
- 2025 3rd International Symposium on Meta-AI for X (ISMAX): Program Chair
- 2025 HCI Korea: MetaMuseum Workshop Organizer
- 2024 2nd International Symposium on Meta-AI for X (ISMAX): Web Chair
- 2024 Korea Computer Congress: Poster Chair (CG & Interaction) & Metaverse+AI+XR Workshop Organizer
- 2024 Korea Software Congress: Poster Chair (CG/HCI/AI/Metaverse/AR/VR)
- 2023 1st International Symposium on Meta-AI for X (ISMAX): Student Chair
- Lead Guest Editor: Special Issue on "XRMemory: The Future of Memory Capture, Reconstruction, and Replay in XR" in Springer Virtual Reality Journal (IF: 6.6)
- Guest Editor: Special Issue on "XR for Knowledge Work and Workplace Enhancement: Human-Centered, Productive, and Ethical XR Workspaces" in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 5.3)
- IPC / Reviewer:
- IEEE ISMAR: 2026 (IPC), 2025 (IPC), 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
- IEEE VR: 2026 (IPC), 2025 (IPC), 2024, 2023, 2022
- ACM VRST: 2025 (IPC), 2024 (IPC)
- ACM CHI: 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023
- IEEE TVCG
- Springer VR
- ACM CSCW 2024
- IEEE/ACM HRI 2023
- ICXR 2025 (IPC)
- 2024 Korea Computer Congress: Top-Conference Session
- 2024 University of Minnesota: Redirected Walking & Spatial AI (Host: Prof. Victoria Interrante)
- 2023 Korea Computer Congress: Top-Conference Session
- 2023 Korea Software Congress: Top-Conference Session
- 2023 HCI Korea: Metaverse Research and Development Session
- 2022 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia: OpenXR BOF Session
- 2022 APMAR: Pitch-Your-Work Session