is currently a senior researcher at KAIST KI-ITC Augmented Reality Research Center (ARRC) and is spending a lot of time on digital twin research that can be applied in augmented cities (smart cities based on Augmented Reality services). His digital twin research begins with his Ph.D. First of all, he received his bachelor’s degree in 2005 from Konyang University, majoring in biomedical engineering. After that, he worked as a developer developing biomedical rehabilitation games for about 10 years at various game companies such as Neowiz Co., Ltd., and Webzen Co., Ltd. In 2012, while he was accidentally creating a serious game for dementia patients, he was interested in visualization research based on information. After that, he started his master’s degree in game development at Dongguk University in 2013 to specialize in games and research at the same time. While working on augmented reality-related projects at Dongguk University after his master’s degree, he thought that augmented reality will be an important solution to solve near future industrial and urban problems. Then, he focused mainly on developing tools for city managers to better understand and use information based on augmented reality and various heterogeneous devices. He received his Ph.D. in late 2018. He is continuing to design and research services for smart cities at KAIST with the belief that digital twins have the power to change the world, and made efforts to develop a system at the level of commercialization.

last update: April 2021

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