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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.

Eunyong Cheon (Post-doc)

Eunyong Cheon is currently working in the WIT Lab as a post-doc. He graduated with his PhD from UNIST in 2024 and his MSC in 2020 both under the supervision of Ian Oakley. Eunyong’s primary research focus is on ‘Usable Security,’ with specific emphasis on ‘Gesture-based Passwords’ and ‘Head Mounted Display (HMD) Authentication.’ In addition, he has worked on the use of bone-conducted audio signals as a novel biometric for wearables such as watches and smartglasses. Currently, he is engaged in the design and evaluation of in-air hand gestures, created by users to serve as passwords for HMDs.

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.

Yonghwan Shin (PhD Student / UNIST)

Yonghwan Shin is a combined Masters-PhD degree student in the Interactions lab at UNIST (from 2018). Yonghwan joined the lab in 2017 as an intern and is currently working on interaction techniques for AR. In Feb ’24, he moved to KAIST to continue and finalize his research.

Jiwan Kim (PhD Student)

Jiwan Kim is a second-year 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

Gangtae Park (Master Student)

Gangtae Park is a first-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.

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.

Amin Jalilov (Undergraduate Intern)

Amin Jalilov is a fifth-year undergraduate student at KAIST, majoring in Computer Science and the AI Special Designated Major. He previously worked at the KAIST NetS&P Lab under Professor Min Suk Kang for one and a half years. Since January 2024, he has been an undergraduate intern at the KAIST WIT Lab under Professor Ian Oakley. His current research focuses on the design and evaluation of in-air hand gestures created by users to serve as passwords for head-mounted displays (HMDs).

Jieun Han (Undergraduate Intern)

Jieun is a 4th-year student at KAIST majoring in electrical engineering and computer science. She joined the lab as an undergraduate intern to study wearable sensing technologies, especially using magnetic sensing for finger movement tracking.

Alumni

Eunyong Cheon (2025, PhD Student / UNIST) - currently a post-doc at WIT Lab.

Yilong Lin (2025, Visiting Graduate Student / SUSTech)

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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