Hajin Lim (임하진)
Endowed Assistant Professor
Information Science and Culture Studies
Department of Communication
Seoul National University
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Hello, I'm Hajin Lim.
Hello, I'm Hajin Lim.
I am an endowed assistant professor of the Information Science and Culture (ISC) Studies housed in the Department of Communication at Seoul National University (SNU). Also, I am a co-director of the HCI+d lab with Prof. Joonhwan Lee.
I received a B.A . in Communication and ISC and an M.Eng from SNU. Following that, I received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Information Science from Cornell University. Prior to joining SNU, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the People and Robot Lab. in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
My research interests lie in human-computer interaction, human-AI interaction, accessibility and multilingual communication. My main research focus is to design and build novel communication support tools that can foster inclusive and understanding communication environments. My design approach involves incorporating AI into diverse communication/collaboration contexts to leverage people’s communication competence and understanding of others/themselves.
News
News
(Jan, 2026) Five full papers were conditionally accepted for CHI 2026. See you in Barcelona!
(Nov, 2025) Research on the diabetes management chatbot was accepted for JMIR Formative Research.
(Aug, 2025) Awarded the research funding (450 milion KRW) from the National Research Foundation of Korea (Global Interdisciplinary Research Program)
(Jul, 2025) "Understanding Digital Gifting Through Messengers Across Cultures" was accepted for CSCW'25.
(May, 2025) "Adaptive-VP: A Framework for LLM-Based Virtual Patients for Nurse Communication Training" was accepted as ACL Findings.
(Apr, 2025) "Letters from Future Self" has been featured across multiple major press in Korea and the official page of SNU.
Previous News
Previous News
(Apr, 2025) "NoRe: Augmenting Journaling Experience with Generative AI for Music Creation" was accepted for DIS'25.
(Mar, 2025) Won the Best Paper Award from SIGCHI ("Letters from Future Self")
(Feb, 2025) The very first paper at an NLP venue on the framework for representing the multidimensional self-concept in LLM agents (SPeCtrum) was accepted for NAACL'25.
(Jan, 2025) Three interesting papers on 'PE in AI,' 'VTubers identity collapse,' and 'LLM agents simulating future self' were accepted for CHI'25.
(Jun, 2024) Two papers about the SMART-TBI (Social media accessibility and rehabilitation toolkit for TBI survivors) and EmoBridge (Collaborative note-taking tool for students with disabilities and their peer note-takers) were accepted to ASSETS'24.
(Apr, 2024) Received the Honorable mention from CHI'24
(Mar, 2024) Two late-breaking work papers were accepted to CHI'24.
(Jan, 2024) Four full papers were accepted to CHI'24.
(Dec, 2023) Received the best paper award from HCI Korea'24. (Two years in a row!)
(Nov, 2023) A study exploring multi-faceted motivations using mobile dating Applications was accepted to GROUP'25 as a full paper.
(Aug 2023) Multiple papers from my previous postdoc on communication support for people with traumatic brain injuries have been accepted to CHI'23, ASSETS'23, and JMIR.
(Jul 2023) Has joined the SNU-CMU HCAI Research Center
(Jun 2023) Another project from my undergraduate HCI courses has been accepted as a CSCW'23 poster.
(Apr 2023) Two student-led papers from the HCI+d lab I mentored have been accepted to DIS'23.
(Mar 2023) Received the startup research fund from Seoul National University, which will support my research on AI-mediated communication ($78K for two years).
(Feb 2023) One student-led project from my undergraduate HCI course has been accepted as a CHI 2023 LBW.
(Jan 2023) The student-led project from my undergraduate HCI course received the best paper award from HCI Korea'23.
(Mar 2022) I started my new position as an endowed assistant professor at the Department of Communication (Information Science and Culture Program), Seoul National University.
(Mar 2021) I started my new position as a postdoctoral research fellow at the People and Robots Lab, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, CS department.
(Feb 2021) I successfully defended my dissertation!
Education
Education
- Ph.D. in Information Science, Cornell University (2021)
Dissertation: Designing to Support Sensemaking in Cross-lingual Computer-mediated Communication Using NLP Techniques
Committee: Susan R. Fussell (Chair), Dan Cosley, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Malte Jung
- M.S. in Information Science, Cornell University (2019)
- M.Eng in Digital Contents and Information Studies, Seoul National University (2015)
- B.A. in Communication, Information Science and Culture, Seoul National University (2013)
Publication
Publication
Contact
Contact
Gwanak-ro 1, 64 (IBK Communication Center) #409, Seoul, Republic of Korea 08826
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