He founded the Healthcare and Information Visualization Engineering (HIVE) Lab in Spring 2009. He received a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering at Seoul National University in 1998. After graduation, he worked in industry for about five years as a consultant and as an software engineer in Seoul and Boston where he became interested in human-computer interaction (HCI) research. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in August 2008. His research topics include mobile computing, universal design, information visualization, and decision science; all of which are relevant to his continuous research question of how to harmonize computers with human users.