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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in Haptics and VR Lab at Kyung Hee University exploring how humans perceive touch through physical interaction. My research focuses on the sensory and mechanical principles that define tactile and kinesthetic perception, examining how force, vibration, and motion shape perceptual realism and user experience. I have worked with grounded and ungrounded systems, including wearable devices, drone-based haptics, and specialized interfaces, to study touch across diverse physical contexts.
To design accurate and perceptually grounded haptic feedback, I conduct psychophysical experiments and analyses to interpret interaction signals and generate feedback that aligns with perceptual intent. My recent work integrates traditional modeling with Applied AI to develop perceptually consistent haptic rendering frameworks, enabling intelligent, interpretable, and lifelike touch experiences across virtual and physical systems.
News
- I will be giving a workshop at the World Haptics Conference 2025 in the AI in Haptics session.
I will be presenting our new paper on Text-Driven Generative Framework for Multimodal Visual and Haptic Texture Synthesis at the same conference.
A demo of our open-source software will be presented on 11 July:
HapTune: An Open-Source Visual Tool for Designing User-Defined Haptic Signals.One paper got accepted at a conference in Sept 2023:
Predicting Perceptual Haptic Attributes of Textured Surfaces from Tactile Data Based on Deep CNN-LSTM Network.One paper got accepted at KCC-2023 in June 2023:
Design and Evaluation of Lightweight Deep Learning Models for Synthesizing Haptic Surface Textures.I will be presenting our paper on Model Mediated Teleoperation for Online Texture Modeling and Rendering on 1st June 2023 at Excel London.
Selected Publications
Miscellanea
Invited Talks
- July 08, 2025 World Haptics Conference on ”AI in Haptics”
- Aug 19, 2024 Korea Haptics Conference on ”Immersive Haptic Rendering”
- Nov 11, 2023 Korea Haptics Conference on “Model Mediated Teleoperation”
Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Haptics (2025~Cont.)
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics ( 2024 ~ Cont.)
- IEEE Access (2024 ~ Cont.)
- IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC 2023~ Cont.)
- IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (2024 ~ Cont.)
- ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (2023 ~ Cont.).
- Euro Haptics Conference 2024
- IEEE Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2023)
Honors and Awards
- Full bright President scholarship to pursue MS-PhD in Kyung Hee University, South Korea (2018 ~ 2025)
- Received Merit scholarships (five times/semesters) during Bachelor degree. (2012 ~ 2016)
Travel Grants
- London, UK to attend International Conference on Robotics and Automation – ICRA (June 2023)
- Tokyo, Japan to attend World Haptics Conference (July 2019)
- South Korea:
- IEEE World Haptics Conference – WHC (July 2025)
- Korea Haptics Conference (2023 ~ 2024)
- Korea Tech Expo (2022 ~ 2023)
- Korea Human-Computer Interaction Conference – KHCI (2022),
- Korea Software Congress – KSC (2022 ~ 2024)
- International Asia Haptics Conference (2018)