Education

2024.03 -
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
Ph.D. in school of electrical engineering, WIT Lab | GPA: 4.0/4.3

2021.03 - 2024.02
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea
M.S. in school of department of design, Interaction Lab | GPA: 4.15/4.3
Thesis: Sonar Sensing On Unmodified Smartwatch

2013.03 - 2021.02
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea
B.S. in school of Human Factor Engineering & Computer engineering | GPA: 4.07/4.3


Research Experience

2023.11 - 2024.02 - Research Assistant
Hyper-Reality Metaverse Research lab, ETRI, Daejeon, Korea
Dynamic Pose Estimation on Mobile Device

2023.02 - 2023.08 - Visitng Reseracher
Human-Computer Interaction group, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Austrailia (Advisor: Vassilis Kostakos)
Sonar Sensing, Digital Phenotyping work


Selected Publications

Around-Device Sensing on Wearables

SonarID: Using Sonar to Identify Fingers on a Smartwatch
Jiwan Kim, and Ian Oakley
CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing systems. (Acc.Rate: 24.7%)
[DOI] | [Video]

Text Input on Wearables

FingerText: Exploring and Optimizing Performance for Wearable, Mobile and One-Handed Typing
Doyoung Lee, Jiwan Kim, and Ian Oakley
CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing systems. (Acc.Rate: 26.3%)
[DOI] | [Video]

Digital Phenotyping

Unpacking Instagram Use: The Impact of Upward Social Comparisons on Usage Patterns and Affective Experiences in the Wild
Jiwan Kim, Doyoung Lee, Mingyu Han, Jaeho Kim, Vassilis Kostakos, and Ian Oakley
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, June 2024. (IF: 5.4)
[DOI]


Academic Service

Organizing Committee
UbiComp-ISWC 2024 SV Co-chair

Reviewer
CHI(24), DIS(24), IMWUT(24), TEI(24), ISS(23, 24), CHI LBW(24), MobileHCI LBW(23)

Student Volunteer
CHI 2022


Research Grant

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
Around-Device Sensing and Interaction On Wearables
PI, $50,000 for 2024.09 - 2026.08

KAIST, Venture Research Program
Developing a Smart Ring Companion For Wearable Input
Lead Researcher (PI: Prof. Ian Oakley), $10,000 for 2024.05 - 2024.12

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
Multimodal Interaction for Augmented Reality
Participating Researcher (PI: Prof. Ian Oakley), 2023.03 - 2026.02

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
행동중재 디지털치료 콘텐츠 개발 및 데이터 수집·분석·표준화 시스템 구축
Participating Researcher (PI: Prof. Hyungsook Kim), 2021.07 - 2023.06, Outcome: Unpacking Instagram Use

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of Korea (MOTIE)
New Technology Convergence Design Professional Training Project (NTCDPT)
Lead Researcher (PI: Prof. Ian Oakley), 2021.03 - 2023.02, Outcome: SonarID

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
WalkAR: Enabling Mobile Input For Smart Glasses
Participating Researcher (PI: Prof. Ian Oakley), 2020.06 - 2023.02, Outcome: FingerText


Recognition

2024.04
Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate Students (Acc.Rate: 4%, $96,000 for 4 yrs)
Awarded by the President of Korea.

2022.11
Best Jury Award, Honorable Mention for People's Choice. ($1500)
Awarded by 2022 UIST Student Innovation Contest.

2021.05
Final Winner, Junction-X-Seoul 2021, The biggest global hackathon in Korea

2021.02
Minister's Award, UNIST commencement ceremony
Awarded by the Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning

2018, 2020
Award for devotion, UNIST, Korea
2018 - Contribution to school development by student activity(student president)
2020 - Contribution to school development by developing Ulsan-COVID19-MAP

2016 - 2019
Academic Achievement Award
2016 Spring(4.06/4.3), 2016 Fall(4.22/4.3), 2017 Spring(4.12/4.3), 2017 Fall(3.94/4.3), 2019 Fall(4.20/4.3)


Activities

2022.12
2022 Korea Science Technology Festival(대한민국 과학기술대전), Demo work
Breathing Detection System Using Sonar on Off-the-Shelf Smartphone

2020.03 - 2020.10
Launch COVID-19 Tracking Map for Ulsan Region, Template for Other Region
Jiwan Kim(Developer, Leader), Daeseong Jeon(Developer), Taeyoon Kim(Design)

2020.01 - 2022.06
Executive board member(2020.01~2021.02)
president(2021.02~2022.06), DINO(Making club; using Arduino) @ UNIST

2019.03 - 2019.08
Grill & Fry Chef, The Chicken Shed, Cairns, Austrailia

2018.03 - 2019.03
Student President, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea

2015 - 2018
Director, Humans of UNIST, Ulsan, Korea
Telling UNIST people's little stories in SNS and 2 books for 3 years.

2017.07- 2017.08, 2016.07- 2017.08
World Friends ICT Volunteering, Regent Univ (2017) and DEOKE Foundation school (2016), Accra, Ghana
Teaching web programming/ Android programming / Culture exchange


Skills

Programming Languages | C++, C#, Python3, Javascript, JAVA, SWIFT
Platform / Module | Node.js, React.js, Tizen, Android Studio, SwiftUI, UNITY
Tools | Arduino, MATLAB, R, AWS, TensorFlow, TinyML, Firbase
Design tools | Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Premier, OpenSCAD, KiCad