Snailmail: 201-2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T-1Z4
Brief Bio
Dongwook Yoon is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, and a member of Designing for People (DFP) and CAIDA. His overarching goal is to make computer-mediated social interactions richer, more inclusive, and more humane. He attends to problem domains where technology design does not match the social process. To make the technology fit human social interactions, his research assesses user needs in socio-technical systems and addresses such needs by realizing and testing novel design interventions.
Yoon is a recipient of multiple prestigious awards, including Google Academic Research Awards (2024) and the CHCCS/SCDHM Graphics Interface Early Career Researcher Award (2023). His work has also been recognized with Best Paper Awards at CHI (2024), High-Impact Award from the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (2024), Honorable Mention Awards at DIS (2022) and CHI (2019), and an Impact Recognition Award at CSCW (2021). During his Ph.D. studies, he was awarded the Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Scholarship (2012-2017).
He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell in 2017; and his M.S. and B.S. from Seoul National University in 2009 and 2007, respectively.
His research and training programs are supported by generous funds from
UBC,
NSERC,
KIST,
Adobe,
Microsoft, and
Google.
I have openings for three graduate students to join my lab at MSc or PhD level for the next admission cycle.
UBC students at any level (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) are welcome to contact me for potential advising and collaboration. For the currently available graduate RA-ship or undergraduate internship positions, please check detailed descriptions of the ongoing projects here:
When contacting me, please include the following information.
Who you are. I want to know which year and program you are in and what kind of skill set you have. If you wish me as a committee member, please indicate your supervisor. Attaching your transcript, CV/resume, or portfolio is the easiest way to go.
Your need. Are you looking for an advisor, a committee member, a funded RAship, or just research experience? Please be upfront about what you want to get out of the meeting. If needs be, please share your academic timeline.
Your research interest. What do you want to study, and why do you think I might be a good fit? To answer these, you would need to watch the videos of my projects and then read the papers that you consider particularly interesting. After that, you could propose a research idea. If you don’t have one, please state your area of interest instead; then, I might suggest a topic or invite you to work on an ongoing project.
I hope we will have the opportunity to work together. If you have self-motivation, commitment, and passion for quality research, I will find resources to support your work and give you feedback to advance your practice.
Current trainees/students
Anika Sayara, PhD
Minju Park, PhD-Track (co-supervised with Cristina Conati)
Gale Chen, PhD-Track
Parsa Rajabi, PhD (incoming)
Yuri Kim, PhD-Track (incoming, co-supervised with Joanna McGrenere)
Alice Kang, PhD-Track (incoming)
Arjun Mishra, UBC WLIURA
Trie Yang, UBC WLIURA
Alice Kang, UBC SURE
Martin Lou, Undergrad RA
Geonwoo Kim, Undergrad RA
Karen Shen, Undergrad RA
Elena Kolmogorov, Undergrad RA
Jessica Lescano, Undergrad RA
Alums
Thitaree Tanprasert, PhD
Jackie Liu, MSc
Mehrnoosh (Merry) Shirvani, MSc
Elise Shen, MSc co-supervised with Joanna McGrenere
Amit Ghimire, MSc
Oloff Biermann, MSc
Cleidson de Souza, Research Associate co-supervised with Ivan Beschastnikh
