Introduction

I am a recent PhD graduate from MIT CAD Lab and UID Group. My research interest lies on building software tools for design engineers. Toward the goal of enabling design engineers to be more creative and productive over a longer span of their careers, artificial intelligence and user-centered design have been two key tools. My dissertation work at MIT primarily focused on improving source code editing. I worked on a code completion system that can simultaneously complete multiple keywords at a time from abbreviated input (Abbreviation Completion). I also worked on a source code editing based on a spreadsheet-like, cell-based text representation (Editable-In-Chunks). Before diving more into improving tools for software engineers, I also worked on tools for hardware engineers. I developed a non-programmer's tool for creating an integrated simulation of engineering analysis tools (Catalog Model Builder). As for a brief history of myself, I earned my bachelor's degree from Seoul National University. After graduating in 2000, I fulfilled my Korean military obligations by working at a software start-up in Seoul, where I could also have a lot of fun and excitement as the company went through several up and down turns of business. In 2004, I decided to return to academia and was fortunate enough to make it into MIT. At MIT, I actively volunteered for MIT Korean Language Class as an instructor and a coordinator.