About Me
Hello. I am Sooyeon Ahn.
- GIST College of Information and Computing Department of AI Convergence
- Soft Computing & Interaction Laboratory
- Ph.D Candidate
- ahnsooyeon25@gmail.com | syahn1160@gm.gist.ac.kr
- +82 (0)10 8542 3978 (KOREA) | +1 (647)563 7269 (CANADA)
Education
- 2022.09 ~ Present. Ph.D Student in GIST _ College of Information and Computing Department of AI Convergence
- 2022. M.S in GIST _ Integrated Technology (CT)
- 2019. MSc in University of Bath _ Architecture & Civil Engineering (Conservation of Historic Buildings)
- 2016. B.Arch in Dankook University _ Architecture
Experiences
- 2025.05 ~ 2026.07. Visiting Ph.D student in University of Toronto DGP Lab (Prof.Khai N Truong)
- 2024.09 ~ 2025.02. Visiting Ph.D student in MIT CSAIL HCIEngineering Group (Prof. Stefanie Mueller)
Publications
International research papers
- CuCap: Comparative Analysis of Customized Captioning between North American and South Korean d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users
- Cãlua de L. Pataca#, SooYeon Ahn#, Suhyeon Yoo#, JooYeong Kim, Khai N. Truong*, Jin-Hyuk Hong*, Roshan L. Peiris*, Matt Huenerfauth*
- The 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ACM ASSETS 2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3663547.3746400
- Meta-antenna: Mechanically Frequency Reconfigurable Metamaterial Antennas
- Marwa AlAlawi#, Regina Zheng, Sooyeon Ahn, Katherine Arianna Yan, Ticha Sethapakdi, Junyi Zhu*, Stefani Mueller*
- In Proceedigns of ACM UIST 2025
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3746059.3747760
- Enhancing Video Experiences for DHH Individuals through Sound-Inspired Motion Caption-based Spatiotemporal Tacton
- SooYeon Ahn#, Gyungmin Jin#, Gunhyuk Park*, and Jin-Hyuk Hong*
- IEEE Transactions on Haptics (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2025.3556667
- Visualizing Speech Styles in Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers
- SooYeon Ahn#, JooYeong Kim#, Choonsung Shin*, and Jin-Hyuk Hong*
- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103386
- Visible Nuances: A Caption System to Visualize Paralinguistic Speech Cues for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals
- JooYeong Kim#, SooYeon Ahn#, and Jin-Hyuk Hong*
- In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581130
- Exploring the Potentials of Crowdsourcing for Gesture Data Collection
- Jung, In-Taek#, Sooyeon Ahn, JuChan Seo, and Jin-Hyuk Hong*
- International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2180235
Domestic research papers
- A study of haptic devices and visualization design for the deaf and hard-of-hearing through an understanding of the music experience
- YouJin Choi, SooYeon Ahn, and Jin-Hyuk Hong*
- Human Computer Interaction Korea (HCIK) 2022
- Development of an Annotation System for the Segmentation and Affective Labeling from Craft Images
- Sooyeon Ahn, Daeho Lee, Woojin Kang, and Jin-Hyuk Hong*
- Korea Software Congress (KSC) 2020
Patents
- Apparatus and methods for visualizing voice information
- Jin-Hyuk Hong, JooYeong Kim, SooYeon Ahn.
- Korea Patent Registration no.10-2023-0101066 (2023)
Grants and Awards
- 2026: GIST-IREF (International Research Exchange Fellowship) Award
- 2026: National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Korea-Canada Science and Engineering Graduate Student research exchange fellowship (accepted, but not taken up)
- 2025: Mitacs Globalink Research Award
- 2024: GIST-IREF (International Research Exchange Fellowship) Award
- 2024 ~ 2026: National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) PhD Studnet Research Fellowship
