Jin Ryong Kim

Ph.D. - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University - 2014

M.S. - Computer Science
Purdue University - 2010

M.S. - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hanyang University - 2004

B.S. - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hanyang University - 2001

Hyunjae Gil, Ashish Pratap, Iniyan Joseph, and Jin Ryong Kim, “PropType: Everyday Props as Typing Surfaces in Augmented Reality,” In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), April 26-May 1, 2025 (accepted, acceptance rate: 25.1%). Winner of the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award 🏆. 2025 - publication

Haokun Wang, Yatharth Singhal, and Jin Ryong Kim, “Let It Snow: Designing Snowfall Experience in VR,” Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 8, Issue 2, May 2024 and Presented at UbiComp 2023. 2024 - publication

Yatharth Singhal, Daniel Honrales, Hsin-Ni Ho, and Jin Ryong Kim, “Wetness Illusion in Mid-Air,” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2024), October 21-25, 2024, Seattle, WA, USA (acceptance rate: 31%). 2024 - publication

Haokun Wang, Yatharth Singhal, Hyunjae Gil, and Jin Ryong Kim, “Fiery Hands: Designing Thermal Glove through Thermal and Tactile Integration for Virtual Object Manipulation,” In Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2024), October 13-16, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (acceptance rate: 24%). 2024 - publication

Yatharth Singhal, Daniel Honrales, Haokun Wang, and Jin Ryong Kim, “Thermal In Motion: Designing Thermal Flow Illusions with Tactile and Thermal Interaction,” In Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2024), October 13-16, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (acceptance rate: 24%). Winner of the Best Demo Honorable Mention Award 🏆. 2024 - publication

Haokun Wang, Yatharth Singhal, Hyunjae Gil, and Jin Ryong Kim, “Thermal Masking: When the Illusion Takes Over the Real,” In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024), May 11-16, 2024 (acceptance rate: 26.4%). 2024 - publication

Ayush Bhardwaj and Jin Ryong Kim, “Tangible Data: Immersive Data Exploration with Touch,” SIGGRAPH 2024 Emerging Technologies, July 2024, Article No.: 19, Pages 1-2, Denver, CO, USA. 2024 - publication

Yatharth Singhal, Haokun Wang, and Jin Ryong Kim, “FIRE: MId-Air Thermo-Tactile Display,” SIGGRAPH 2024 Emerging Technologies, July 2024, Article No.: 9, Pages 1-2, Denver, CO, USA. 2024 - publication

NSF CAREER Award - National Science Foundation (NSF) [2025]

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award - ACM CHI 2025 [2025]

Best Demo Award - ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 [2023]

Best Paper Nominee - IEEE VR 2023 [2023]

Best Poster Award - ACM VRST 2022 [2022]

Distinguished Service Award - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society [2022]

Young Researcher Award - Korea Haptics Community [2019]

Third Prize at Samsung Software Competition - Samsung Electronics [2003]

Hanyang Technology and Science Fellowship - Hanyang University [2002]

Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2020–Present]

Staff Researcher
Alibaba Group [2018–2020]

Senior Researcher
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) [2004–2018]