Biography
Bogoan Kim is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, where he leads the HCI Lab. Prior to joining CBNU, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at KAIST, supported by the Jang Young Sil Fellowship, working with Prof. Hwajung Hong and Prof. Uichin Lee. He earned his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Hanyang University under the supervision of Prof. Kyungsik Han, supported by the NRF of Korea Ph.D. Fellowship.
Positions
- Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea Sep 2025 – Present
- Assistant Professor, School of Information and Communication Engineering
- KAIST, Daejeon, Korea May 2025 - Aug 2025
- Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Engineering (Advisors: Prof. Hwajung Hong and Prof. Uichin Lee)
- Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea Mar 2025 - April 2025
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Data Science (Advisor: Prof. Kyungsik Han)
- The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
- Visiting Scholar, College of IST (Advisors: Prof. Dongwon Lee and Prof. Aiping Xiong)
- Indiana University - Bloomington, IN, USA Oct. 2019 - Feb. 2020
- Visiting Scholar, Luddy School of Informatics (Advisors: Prof. Patich C. Shih and Prof. Georgia C.Frey)
Education
- Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea Aug. 2021
- Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence (Advisor: Kyungsik Han)
- Dissertation: BalancePath: AI-VR Framework for Personalized Adaptive System
- University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, MN, USA Aug. 2013
- B.S in Statistics
Selected Publications (For a complete list, see Google Scholar or my CV)
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Enhancing Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in a VR: A Prospective Interventional Study
{Bogoan Kim*, Dayoung Jeong*}, Yoonseon Choi, Yunyoung Choi, Hyungsook Kim, and Kyungsik Han
Scientific Reports (JCR Q1, 2025) -
"I Don’t Know Why I Should Use This App”: Holistic Analysis on User Engagement Challenges in Mobile Mental Health
{Seungwan Jin*, Bogoan Kim*}, and Kyungsik Han
ACM CHI 2025 -
Narrating Routines through Game Dynamics: Impact of a Gamified Routine Management App for Autistic Individuals
Bogoan Kim, Dayoung Jeong, Hwajung Hong, and Kyungsik Han
ACM CHI 2024 -
V-DAT: Supporting Self-Awareness for Autistic People from Multimodal VR Sensor Data
Bogoan Kim, Dayoung Jeong, Jennifer G Kim, Hwajung Hong, and Kyungsik Han
ACM UIST 2023 -
Supporting Independence of Autistic Adults through Mobile and Virtual Reality Technologies
Bogoan Kim
ACM UIST 2023 (Doctoral Symposium) -
RoutineAid: Externalizing Key Design Elements to Support Daily Routines of Individuals with Autism
Bogoan Kim, Sung-In Kim, Sungwon Park, Hee Jeong Yoo, Hwajung Hong, and Kyungsik Han
ACM CHI 2023 - Jang Young Sil Postdoctoral Fellowship
Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea 2025 - Hanyang University Postdoctoral Fellowship
Research Institute of Industrial Science, Hanyang University 2025 - NRF of Korea Ph.D. Fellowship
National Research Foundation of Korea 2023 - UIST Travel Grant
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2023 - Gary Marsden Travel Award
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023 - SK Creative Challenge Finalist
SK C&C 2022 - IITP Best Global Research Team Award
Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation 2021 - Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews
CHI 2024, CHI 2025, IMWUT 2025