AUSTIN SEUNGMIN LEE
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EXPERIENCES
May 2017 - Current
Senior Designer | Office Envisioning Design, Office Products Group, Microsoft, Redmond, US
_Senior Designer at Office Envisioning Design & Open Studio Team, since 2018; Interaction Design Lead on Skype Mixed Reality and hardware integration (Skype for HoloLens, Windows Mixed Reality and Amazon Echo). Patent Lead at Skype Design, 2017 - 2018
AUG 2015 - May 2017
Assistant Professor | School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, US
_tenure track assistant professor at CMU's School of Design (SoD), interaction design topic chair at SoD (appointed in academic year of 2016/17), affiliated faculty member of the Master of Tangible Interaction Design Program (appointed on 19 Oct 2016)
SEP 2016
Lead Coordinator, Interaction Designer | 2016 London Design Biennale, Somerset House, London, UK
_Design team member representing South Korea for the London Design Biennale exhibition
JUL 2016 - Current
Advisor | Graviky Labs Pvt. Ltd.
_products such as Air Ink, Jack Boy featured in TED, WIRED, Hackaday, GIZMODO, Engadget, Creative Applications
JUN - JUL 2016
Design Consultant | NAVER Labs
_Interface Design Consulting for NAVER Labs
May 2014 - 1 AUG 2015
User Experience Designer II. | Skype Division, Microsoft, Redmond, US
_designer at the Skype design team; Skype's HoloLens companion experience, Skype X
AUG 2013 - MAY 2014
User Experience Designer II. | Microsoft, Bellevue, US
_designer at the IPE design team; NUI, speech interaction design for new hardware experiences including HoloLens
SEP 2011 - JUNE 2013
Research Assistant | MIT Media Laboratory, MA, US
_awarded full Research Assistantship (RA) at the Tangible Media Group
2011 JAN - MAY
Freelance Designer, Researcher | Aeolab LLC, Birdcrumbs, Los Angeles, CA, US
2010 JUN - SEP
Visual Strategist | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, US
_awarded NASA's National Space Grant Fellowship
2009 MAY - AUG
User Experience Co-op | Moto Development Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA, US
2008 APR - MAY
Freelance Designer | User Interface Hanmoa Co., Ltd., Seoul, South Korea
Intern Designer | Design Continuum, Inc., Seoul, South Korea
2006 JUL - AUG
Intern Designer, Design Development Team | Hanssem Company, Ltd., Seoul, South Korea
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TEACHING & GUEST LECTURES
7 May 2019
Nominated Speaker | Fluent Design Talk Series, Microsoft Redmond
_Motion For Interaction Design - Gave a talk on various IxD prototyping methods to Experience Collective Design & Research Team including Office Product Group at Microsoft
13 DEC 2018
Workshop Organizer | Open Studio, Microsoft Redmond
_Conducted workshop on After Effects for UX Design - Introduction to Lottie and Motion Graphic for UX Design to Microsoft's Open Studio and Skype Design team members.
14 APR 2018
Guest Speaker & Moderator | The 7th Carnegie Mellon University Summit, Pittsburgh, PA
_Invited to the 7th CMU Summit's HCI Panel in Design as moderator and guest speaker. Additional speakers include Prof. Jodi Forlizz, Prof. John Zimmerman and Prof. Lining Yao.
21 FEB 2018
Guest Lecturer & Workshop Organizer | Carnegie Mellon School of Design, Pittsburgh, PA
_Invited to conduct design workshop and give talk on AI + Design with Jae Kim at Prof. Peter Scupelli's Graduate Design Studio II at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design
9 NOV 2017
Guest Speaker | Adobe Day for Creativity, Seoul, South Korea
_Digital Innovation and Design Trend in Tech Industry
7 NOV 2017
Guest Speaker | Open Class, Hyundai Card/Hyundai Capitol, Seoul, South Korea
_인터페이스의 변화와 디지털 산업의 동향
6 JUL 2016
Seminar Series Guest Speaker | Industrial Design KAIST, Woonbum Hall, N25
_catch the future 2016: Progressive Interfaces & Designing Futures
28 JUN 2016
Seminar Talk, Design Topic | NAVER, Green Factory Bundang-gu,Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
_Designing Futures & Utopia by Design
14 JUN 2016
Seminar Talk, Technology Topic | NAVER, Green Factory Bundang-gu,Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
_Immersive Communications & Future of Interface Design
(Augmented Reality Based 3D Communication을 통해 바라본 인터페이스 디자인의 미래)
9 APR 2016
Code Fest Judge | Steel City CodeFest, Carnegie Library in Oakland, Pittsburgh PA
_City-wide app building event for designers and coders to create apps for government, citizens, and community organizations.
http://steelcitycodefest.com/judges
26 MAR 2016
Invited Speaker | TEDx Seoul National University - TEDxSNU, Yeongdeungpo-gu, 11 South Korea
_Talk Title: How To Design When Things Are No Longer Sci-Fi?
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/18497
25 FEB 2016
Guest Lecturer | Intro to Innovation-INV 225, School of Engineering, University of Portland
_Talking about progressive user interface and designer's role. Instructor: Anna Harper PhD
19 NOV 2015
Scientific Reviewer | Innovation Centre of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology
_JackBoy: A low cost sensing interface for next billion citizens
5 NOV 2015
Guest Speaker | School of Engineering, NYU
_Data Visualization from 2D to 4D (screen graphics to physical objects)
9 OCT 2015
Guest Speaker | KREATE's 2015 Korean Alphabet Day Event at Space Gabi, New York
_Integrated Learning Manual. Fellow Speakers: Ji Lee (Facebook Creative Strategist), Sang Lee (Deloitte Digital ACD)
11 SEP 2015
Guest Speaker | HCII (Human Computer Interaction Institute) Seminar Series, Carnegie Mellon University
_Designing at The Intersections. Host: Chinmay Kulkarni
https://www.hcii.cmu.edu/news/seminar/event/2015/09/designing-intersections
2014 SEP - 2015 MAR
Adjunct Faculty | Art Institute of Seattle
_Teaching Emerging Technology and Experience Design courses. Co-taught with Dhairya Dand
24 MAR 2014
Guest Lecturer | Department of Industrial and Visual Design, University of Seoul
_UX Design & HCI Story
5 MAR 2014
Guest Lecturer | MDP Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
_Panel Discussion for MDP Industry Practice course taught by Mimi Zeiger
19 DEC 2013
Guest Lecturer | College of Design, Kookmin University, Seoul South Korea
_UX Design & Life After School
2013 FALL
Mentor | Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
_Dot Exchange Mentor Program: provided thesis, career, portfolio advisement to Mentee, V. Kan
2013 FEB - APR
Co-Instructor | MIT Media Laboratory, MA, US
_Special Topics: Fundamentals of Visual Communication, MAS S63. Faculty Sponsor, H. Hishii
2012 SEP - DEC
Teaching Assistant | MIT Media Laboratory, MA, US
_Tangible Interfaces course, MAS 834. Instructor, H. Ishii
2009 JAN - APR
Teaching Assistant | Art Center College of Design
_awarded program assistantship for Media History & Theory, a Graduate level media history and criticism class.
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PATENT
2016 DEC
Patent #US 9,516,255 B2, Issued 6 Dec 2016 in United States
_Communication System
2011 MAY
Patent #US 7,952,866 B2, Issued 31 May 2011 in United States
_Portable Computer
2009 JAN
Patent #10-2007-0011071, Issued 22 Jan 2009 in South Korea
_portable computing device with ultra thin layers of multi remote monitors
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EXHIBITIONS
7-27 SEPTEMBER 2016
Peach Blossom installation at the Korea Design Booth | London Design Biennale 2016
Somerset House, London, UK
29 NOV - 1 DEC 2012
[Second Surface: Multi-user Spatial Collaboration System based on Augmented Reality] | SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Emerging Technologies, Singapore
DEC 2010
[Winner's Exhibition] | Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2010
Red Dot Design museum, Essen, Germany
SEP 2010
[After Dark, Cosmological Constructs] | NASA JPL's Jupiter Fog, Collaboration with Dan Goods
Exploratorium: The museum of science, art and human Perception, San Francisco, CA, US
APR 2010
[Responsive Causality] | Graduation Exhibition of Graduate Media Design Program
Wind Tunnel Gallery, Art Center College of Design S. Campus, Pasadena, CA, US
NOV 2006
[Digital Blue] | Graduation Exhibition of Interior Design Program
Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
OCT 2004
[SHARE] | Group Design Exhibition of College of Design & Architecture
Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
MAY 2002
[Design Festival `CIRCUS' street exhibition] | Tium Group
DaeHakRo, Seoul, South Korea
OCT 2001
[Design For Minority] | Group Design Exhibition of College of Design & Architecture
Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
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EDUCATION
SEP 2011 - JUNE 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, US
_full-time student in the graduate program in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT
AUG 2010
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, US
_MFA in Media Design
AUG 2007
Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea,
_BFA in Visual Communication Design | 4.0 GPA
_BFA in Interior Design | 4.0 GPA
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HONORS
Art Center MFA Thesis Scholarship
_Thesis Scholar Recipient | 2009 -2010
Art Center MFA Scholarship
_Entrance scholarship of 2 years half tuition grant
Undergraduate Scholarship for Academic Excellence
_Kookmin University Tuition Grant | 2006, 2005, 2002
Army Commendation Medal | U.S. Department of the Army | 2005
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AWARDS
Core77 Design Awards, Student Notable Interaction Award | Irene Alvarado, Vikas Yadav, Nurie Jeong, Manjari Sahu. Instructor : Austin Lee | 2017
Emerging Technologies Prize presented to S. Kasahara, V. Heun, Austin Lee and H. Ishii for work titled Second Surface: Multi-user Spatial Collaboration System based on Augmented Reality | SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies | 2012
Red Dot distinction for high design quality | Red Dot Award: Communication Design | 2010
ADAA Honorable Mention | Adobe Design Achievement Award | 2010
Samsung Card Design Competition Finalist | Samsung Card Co., Ltd | 2006
Army Commendation Medal | U.S. Department of the Army | 2005
KEPCO Advertisement Competition Finalist | Korea Electric Power Corporation | 2005
LGad Advertisement Awards TV Story Board Finalist | LGad | 2002
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PUBLICATIONS | POSTERS
Online Feature
Featured in Creative Applications Network | Second Surface | 2013
Red Dot Winners’ online exhibition | www.red-dot.de | Dec 2010
ADAA online gallery | Adobe Systems Incorporated | Nov 2010
Featured in Outer Circle 13 | Art Center College of Design | Spring 2010
Conferences
Program Committee, DeSForM 2017 | 10th edition of the DeSForM conference series, Sense and Sensitivity | Delft October 17-18, Eindhoven October 19-20
Reviewer, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 2017 | http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779
TEI 2017 Tangible Embedded & Embodied Interaction | 20-23 Mar 2017
Dixon Lo, Jiyoung Ko, and Austin Lee. 2017. ShapeShift: Mediating User Interaction Through Augmented Shading and Shadow. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 633-639. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3024969.3025088
TEI 2017 Tangible Embedded & Embodied Interaction | 20-23 Mar 2017
Denis Vlieghe, Austin S. Lee, and Wayne Chung. 2017. Distorted Reality: Augmented 3D Photogrammetry Over HoloLens?. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 665-670. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3024969.3025056
TEI 2017 Tangible Embedded & Embodied Interaction | 20-23 Mar 2017
Marisa Lu, Gautam Bose, Austin Lee, and Peter Scupelli. 2017. Knock Knock to Unlock: A Human-centered Novel Authentication Method for Secure System Fluidity. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 729-732. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3024969.3035530
TEI 2017 Tangible Embedded & Embodied Interaction | 20-23 Mar 2017
Meric Dagli, Julia Petrich, Rossa Kim, Nehal Vora, and Austin S. Lee. 2017. Corus: A Holographic Candle System with Intuitive Gestural Interaction and Ambient Feedback to Promote Co-Sleeping. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 571-577. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3024969.3025095
Interaction Design Education Summit (IxD Education Summit), Helsinki Finland | 29 Feb 2016
Austin S. Lee, Peter Scupelli. Teaching Interaction Design in Physical, Digital, and Hybrid Environments
http://edusummit.ixda.org
TEI 2016 Tangible Embedded & Embodied Interaction | 14-17 Feb 2016
Rachel S. Ng, Raghavendra Kandala, Sarah Marie-Foley, Dixon Lo, Molly Wright Steenson, and Austin S. Lee. 2016. Expressing Intent: An Exploration of Rich Interactions. In Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 524-531. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2856526
TEI 2016 Tangible Embedded & Embodied Interaction | 14-17 Feb 2016
Dixon Lo and Austin Lee. 2016. Click: Using Smart Devices For Physical Collaborative Coding Education. In Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 500-505. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2856522
TEI 2016 Tangible Embedded & Embodied Interaction, Studio Workshop | 14 Feb 2016
Austin S. Lee and Dhairya Dand. 2016. MeMod: A Modular Hacking and Programming Toolkit For Everyday Objects. In Proceedings of the TEI '16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 757-761. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2854113
ACM Immersive Media Experiences Workshop | 30 Oct 2015
Henry Chen*, Austin S. Lee*, Mark Swift, and John C. Tang. 2015. 3D Collaboration Method over HoloLens™ and Skype™ End Points. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Immersive Media Experiences (ImmersiveME '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 27-30. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2814347.2814350
ACM SUI 2014, Honolulu, HI | 4 - 5 Oct 2014
_Austin Lee, Hiroshi Chigira, Sheng Kai Tang, Kojo Acquah, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2014. AnnoScape: remote collaborative review using live video overlay in shared 3D virtual workspace. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM symposium on Spatial user interaction (SUI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 26-29. DOI=10.1145/2659766.2659776
CHI 2013 (WIP), Paris | 27Apr - 2May 2013
_Austin S. Lee and Kshitij Marwah. 2013. Scaled reality: interfaces for augmenting information on small-scale tangible objects. In CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 985-990. DOI=10.1145/2468356.2468532
SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Emerging Technologies, Singapore | 29Nov - 1Dec 2012
_Shunichi Kasahara, Valentin Heun, Austin S. Lee, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2012. Second surface: multi-user spatial collaboration system based on augmented reality. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Emerging Technologies (SA '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 20 , 4 pages. DOI=10.1145/2407707.2407727
UIST 2012 Demo | 25th ACM UIST Symposium, Cambridge, US | 7-10 Oct 2012
_Misha Sra, Austin Lee, Sheng-Ying Pao, Gonglue Jiang, and Hiroshii Ishii. 2012. Point and share: from paper to whiteboard. In Adjunct proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST Adjunct Proceedings '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 23-24. DOI=10.1145/2380296.2380309
Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)'s 2012 International Conference, paper presentation for poster session with Y. Kim, S. Luescher, K. Marwah, Boston, US | 15-18 Aug 2012
Critical Information: Mapping the intersection of Art & Technology, SVA, paper presentation for graduate conference at SVA, a collaboration with Yuseung Kim, NY, US | Dec 2011
The 6th Swiss Design Network Conference, Everyday Story Of Imaginative Time & Space, collaborative design research workshop with Yuseung Kim, Basel, Switzerland | conference website | 28 -30 Oct 2010
_Featured in Negotiating futures-design fiction: ISBN 978-3-9523662-1-9
Red dot: communication design international yearbook 2010/2011: ISBN 978-3-89939-117-6 | Oct 2010
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SKILLS & CERTIFICATIONS
Language
Fluent in spoken and written English and Korean
Software
Well versed in Macintosh and Window platforms.
Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (e.g. AE, Illustrator, XD, Indesign, Photoshop), physical computing prototype (Make Controller Kit, Arduino, LittleBits), motion graphic for UX (e.g. After Effects, Lottie integration into Xcode, Framer; principle), 3D Studio MAX, Rhino (trained certificate), Cinema 4D, Unity, Framer X, Framer Studio, Sketch
Programming skills: Processing, p5js, ActionScript 2.0, Java, openFrameworks, Coffee Script, React for Framer X, basic experience in javascript and html5
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References Available Upon Request
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