Hello, I’m Daeun Yoo

✨ Human-Centered AI Researcher / Designer

🌏 I worked as a UX Designer and CEO’s Creative Advisor at Samsung Electronics. With my 5+years of UX design experience, I have designed not only fundamental UI/UX mobile apps, but have also built multi-modality solutions for cross platforms: SmartThings (IoT app, 500,000,000 downloads), Account, Standard design systems, E-commerce (web), and futuristic projects for the next UX.

🇺🇸 These days, I am expanding my expertise to "Design with Generative AI for Creativity and Learning" at Harvard University and MIT Media Lab. I’m doing experiments and discussions at “AI Leaders at Harvard” and “Harvard AR/VR Club.”

In my free time, I enjoy immersing myself in nature, riding a bicycle, or camping to chill out :) If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me!

CV as a researcher | Resume as a Designer

Academic Background

  • Harvard University, Master in Design Engineering ‘24

    - AI Leaders at Harvard

    - Harvard AR/VR club (HAR/VRD)

    - Teaching Fellow for Science of Behavioral Change (MLD 304)

    - Harvard Behavior Insights Student Group (BISG)

  • MIT, cross-registered

    - Generative AI for K-12 education

    - Affective computing

    - AI for Impact

    - AI for mental health

  • Korea University

    - Major in Information & Industrial Design

    - Minor in Business Administration (Mar 2013~Feb 2019)

Experience

  • Samsung Electronics, Cooperate Design Center

    Full-time UX Designer, Creative board (CEO & CFO Advisor) (2020~2022)

  • MIT CSAIL, HCI Researcher

    1) App Inventor: Leading the "Mind Palette" project, a digital art therapy tool based on Gen AI (DALL·E, GPT).

    2) App planner: Co-creating mobile applications with Generative AI

  • MIT Media Lab

    1) AI for Social Coach: Designing AI Mental Health Support App for Social Anxiety Disorder: User Insights from a Case Study.

    2) AI-ert: AI-Assisted Emotion Journaling with Visual Art to Reduce Alexithymia

    3) iSight: A tokenized tele-help platform to connect the visually impaired with volunteers.

  • Korea Institute of Design Promotion, UX design mentor & Lecturer (2021-2022)

  • Korea Creative Content Agency, UX design mentor & Lecturer (2021-2022)

  • Samsung Design Membership, UX lead, product designer, leadership (2016-2018)

  • Korea University UX Lab, UX researcher, interaction designer (2016-2018)

  • Enactus, Korea University, President (2016)

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea, Volunteer Designer (2016)

  • Freelance UX/UI/branding designer (2015-2016)

Awards & Honor

  • 2023 Presented at UNESCO Digital Learning Weeks

  • 2023 MIT Ignite: Generative AI Entrepreneurship Competition, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab — $15,000 grant

  • 2023 ACII (Affective Computing and Intelligence Interaction)

  • 2022 Creative Arts Competition (emote) — Top 10

  • 2022 IF Design Award, UX lead (Routine Builder for Smart Home Automation) — Winner

  • 2022 Fulbright Graduate Student Program Award (self-waived)

  • 2021 IF Design Award (Virtual home for IoT commerce) — Finalist

  • 2021 Good Design Award (Plug and Connect) — Finalist

  • 2018 Hackathon of Vitra x Samsung Design membership — Winner

  • 2018 Best member of UX design, Samsung Design Membership

  • 2018 Adobe Design Achievement Awards — Semifinalist

  • 2017 Capstone Award, Korea University (Bfriend) — 3rd prize

  • 2017 Best team of graduation project, Korea University

  • 2017 Best individual work of graduation project, Korea University

  • 2017 Adobe Design Achievement Awards — Semifinalist

  • 2015 Business Idea Competition, Graduate School of Management of Technology, Korea University — 3rd prize

  • 2015 LG Innovative Personal Device Competition, LG Electronics (Jelly cam) — 3rd prize

Paper & Patent

  • Paper:

    1. Mind Palette: Digital Art therapy with Generative AI (ACII 2023)

    2. Goal-Based Bundling: A Behaviorally Informed Strategy to Combine Multiple Smart Products (IASDR 2021).

  • Design patent: Display screen or portion there of with graphical user interface — The United States: 29778643 / Republic of Korea: 30-2020-0061049.

Media