His research areas include design for social innovation, sociotechnical systems design, sustainable design, and nature-inspired design. His current research focuses on systems design for social changes. He received his PhD at Politecnico di Milano with a dissertation on the design for grassroots social innovations empowered by information communication technologies. Before joining UNIST, he worked as a user experience designer at Samsung Mobile, a visiting researcher at the Center for Appropriate Technologies in Vienna and the Hope Institute (a social innovation think tank) in Seoul.