Senio Researcher (PhD) | Global Shaper

<aside> 🏖️ Vision: Connect people and create impact by breaking the boundaries between reality and virtuality.

Researcher: I received a Ph.D. degree at KAIST UVR lab. I have strong knowledge of VR, AR, Telepresence, Spatial Computing, and Human-Computer-Interaction. Familiar with various forms of prototyping with AR/VR HMDs (Hololens2, Quest Pro, Vive Pro Eye).

Global Shaper: In 2023, I founded the Global Shapers Community (GSC) Daejeon Hub, under the World Economic Forum. The mission of GSC Daejeon is to leverage Daejeon’s robust science and technology infrastructure to address the issues of regional depopulation and youth outmigration. After serving as Vice Curator, I now lead the “StartHere” platform, which connects local talent with high-quality companies and works to attract top-tier companies to the region, ensuring that young professionals can find meaningful employment opportunities outside major metropolitan areas.

Entrepreneur: I worked as an investment manager at startup VC (Bluepoint Partners), tried my startup projects three times, and was co-founder of the KAIST student startup association, 'KAIST Entrepreneurs (KE).' Recently, I have been working as a founding member of the global shaper community (GSC) Daejeon hub to solve the Seoul centralization problem and enhance Daejeon's sustainability.

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Curriculum Vitae

Academic CV (Dooyoung).pdf

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Personal Info.

👨‍🎓Education

• Ph.D. Candidate @UVR Lab, Culture and Technology Dept. (XR/HCI), KAIST (03/2021 ~ 02/2024)
  • Projects: OpenXR: TranSpace 3.0, CT-AR Program, Meta-Museum
  • Advisor: Woontack Woo
  • Thesis: "Space-Adaptive Mutual Space Generation for Mixed Reality Remote Collaboration"
• Master @UVR Lab, Culture and Technology Dept. (XR/HCI), KAIST (2021)
  • Visiting Research @Imagine Lab, ENPC ParisTech (12/2019 - 02/2020)
  • Projects: TranSpace 2.0, National R&D Real Challenge Program
  • Thesis: "Adjusting relative translation gains according to space size in redirected walking for mixed reality mutual space generation"
• Bachelor, Mechanical Engineering Dept., KAIST (2019)
• Lab Intern @UVR Lab, KAIST (07/2018 - 08/2018)
• Lab Intern @Hubo Lab, KAIST (12/2017 - 02/2018)
• Exchange Student @Tsinghua University (09/2016 - 12/2016)

🛠Skill Highlights

• HCI Research

• AR/VR Prototyping

• Unity(C#)/Python/Matlab

• Optimization Algorithm

🥽 Research Projects

• Meta-Object (04/2024 - Ongoing)
  • Project Leader (~50 researchers) & Intelligent Platform Research Team Leader
  • Meta-Object: Real-time XR Interface Technology Development for Environmental Adaptation. Funded from the Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT).
• Meta-Museum (10/2023 - Ongoing)
  • The KAIST-NYU joint research project about metaverse museum platform to enable extended museum experience overcoming spatial/time constraints.
• OpenXR: TranSpace 3.0 (12/2021 - Ongoing)
  • KAIST Telepresence System Leader & Avatar-SceneGraph-Interaction Research Team Leader
  • Development of Untact Realistic OpenXR Platform Technology. National Research Project funded by Korean Government. Joint Research Project with KISTI, KAIST, KICT, and KIOM.
• CT-AR Program (03/2021 - 02/2024)
  • Virtual Augmented Reality Professional Training Project
• Metaverse Museum Planning (07/2021 - 09/2021)
  • A Study on the Planning Digital Twin based Metaverse Museum Platform for Lee Kunhee Museum
• TranSpace 2.0 (09/2019 - 12/2020)
  • Development of User Restoration Technology for Ultra-Realistic Remote Virtual Interaction
• National R&D Real Challenge (04/2020 - 12/2020)
  • Reinforcement of Visual Cognitive Abilities for AR-VR Mixed Reality Remote Collaboration

🤗 Experience (Career & Start-up)

• Senior contract Researcher, KAIST - 03/2024 ~ Present, Daejeon
  • Senior researcher at KAIST KI-ITC Augmented Reality Research Center.
  • Research Topic: XR remote collaboration, ubiquitous virtual reality, spatial computing, spatial recording/replaying, mutual space, scene graph