Andrea Bianchi Ph.D.

• Research in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI):
  Physical Computing / Creativity Tools / Mixed Reality
• Citations: 2341 H-index: 29
• 84 international conference and 39 journal papers
• Best Paper Awards UIST 2020, TEI 2021, MobileHCI 2013
• 5 CHI Honorable Mention Awards and 4 at other ACM conferences
• 4 KAIST awards for International Cooperation and Research Excellence
• UIST 2025 Paper Co-Chair

• KAIST Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷

  Department of Industrial Design

  Associate professor09/2019 - present

  Assistant professor09/2015 - 08/2019
  School of Computing

  Joint professor10/2022 - 09/2028
  Human-Robot Interaction Center

  Adjunct professor03/2022 - present

• The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺

  Faculty of Engineering (CS)

  Visiting Researcher (sabbatical)11/2023 - 2/2024

  Host: Anusha Withana

• The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵

  JSPS Fellow for Research in Japan (sabbatical)1/4/2024 - 5/6/2024

  Host: Masahiko Inami

• Sungkyunkwan University Suwon, Korea 🇰🇷

  Department of Computer Science

  Assistant professor (tenure track)03/2013 - 08/2015

• Rebel Monkey Inc. New York, USA 🇺🇸

  Lead game programmer02/2007 - 12/2007

• KAIST Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷

  Ph.D. in Culture Technology

  2008-2012

  Concentration in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

• New York University New York, USA 🇺🇸

  MS. in Computer Science

  2005-2007

• Universita' Bocconi Milano, Italy 🇮🇹

  Laurea (BS+MS) in Business Administration

  1999-2004

• KAIST Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷

  Department of Industrial Design

  ID311/ID430: Software PrototypingSpring 2016 - present

  ID499: Designing Interaction with Hardware (special topic)Spring 2026

  ID499: Designing Interaction with AI (special topic)Fall 2025

  ID50002: Research Methodology (graduate)Fall 2025

  CS492F: AI Prototyping (special topic)Fall 2024

  ID220: Interaction PrototypingFall 2018 - 2022

  ID307: Interface DesignSpring 2016, 2017

• Sungkyunkwan University Suwon, Korea 🇰🇷

  Department of Computer Science

  ECE5947: HCI Design (graduate)Spring 2014

  CSE3040: Human Computer InteractionSpring 2014, 2015

  ERC2006: Creative DesignFall 2013

  GEDB029: Introduction to ProgrammingFall 2013-14, Spring 2014-15

  ICE2002: Data structuresSpring 2013, Fall 2014

  CSE3002: AlgorithmsSpring 2013

  CSE3039: Programming LanguagesSpring 2015

• Best Paper Award UIST 2020
• Best Paper Award TEI 2021
• Best Paper Award MobileHCI 2013
• Best Paper Award HCI Korea 2022
• Best Paper Award HCI Korea 2018
• Best Paper Award HCI Korea 2015

• Honorable Mention Award CHI 2026
• Honorable Mention Award CHI 2025
• Honorable Mention Award CHI 2024
• Honorable Mention Award CHI 2022
• Honorable Mention Award CHI 2021
• Honorable Mention Award EICS 2024
• Honorable Mention Award Augmented Humans 2021
• Honorable Mention Award MobileHCI 2017
• Honorable Mention Award MobileHCI 2016

• Best Poster Award UIST 2016
• iF Design Award 2021 Mobile Clinic Module Control UX/UI
• IDSA 2021 Bronze Design Award

• KAIST 2026 International Cooperation Award
• KAIST 2025 Special Reserach Award
• KAIST 2023 Global Research Cooperation Award Excellence Prize
• KAIST 2020 Technology Innovation Award 공과대학 2020 기술혁신 우수상
• KAIST College of Enginnering 2022 Breakthroughs Readers’ Choice Award
• KAIST Industrial Design Excellence Teaching Award (Fall 2017)

Program committee and editor

• UIST 2025 Program Co-Chair
• CHI 2026 Subcommitte chair (Blending Interaction: Engineering Interactive Systems & Tools)
• CHI 2025 Subcommitte chair (Blending Interaction: Engineering Interactive Systems & Tools)
• EuroHaptics 2026 Workshop Co-Chair
• Korea Haptics Conference 2026 Demo Co-Chair
• IEEE Transactions on Haptics Associated Editor (2024-2027)
• Korean Society of Design Science Board Member (2024-2027)
• IEEE World Haptics 2025 Demo Co-Chair
• CHI Associate chair 2024/23/22/21/19/18/16/15
• UIST Associate chair 2023/20
• Symposium on Computations Fabrication (SCF) Assocaite chair 2026
• DIS Associate chair 2020/18
• TEI Associate chair 2018/16
• IEEE Transactions on Haptics 2021/20 guest editor
• Korea HCI 2021 Digital Fabrication Panel Organizer
• MIMSVAI 2021 Workshop (Multiple Input Modalities and Sensations for VR/AR Interactions)
• SIGGRAPH E-Tech 2019
• Eurohaptics 2018
• DESFORM 2017
• IMCOM 2015

Conference chair/organizer

• UIST 2024 Doctoral Symposium Panelist
• Korean Society of Design Science (KSDS) Board member/이사 (1/1/2024-31/12/2025)
• SIGCHI Korea Local Chapter Vice chair (1/4/2022 - 31/7/2023)
• TEI 2023 Graduate Student Consortium (GSC) co-chair
• TEI 2022 Late-breaking works co-chair
• MobileHCI 2021 Late-breaking works co-chair
• Korea HCI 2021 International Chair
• TEI 2020 Student design challenge co-chair
• MobileHCI 2019 Web chair
• ISS 2019 Poster co-chair
• Asia Haptics 2018 demo co-chair
• TEI 2017 WIP chair
• IEEE World Haptics 2013 art chair
• HAID 2013 poster chair

Department/University Roles

• External Cooperation Committee of the College of Engineering (2021.3 - present)
• International Graduate Students Admission Coordinator (2021.3 - present)
• Master’s Students Coordinator (2021.3 - present)
• International Coordinator (2020)
• ID KAIST Space Manager (2017-2020)

For a complete list refer to the Google Scholar page.

• If All You Have is a Hammer”: Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools. Invited talk at the 2025 Beyond Real: Exploring the Future of Human Experience in Virtual Reality workshop, SUSTech, Shenzhen, China (Host Seungwoo Je, 27 November 2025).
• The importance of chance. Invited talk at the 2025 Fall Humanity Leadership Lecture, KAIST, Korea (12 November 2025).
• Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools. Invited talk at the Forum on Future Interaction: Reimagining Human-AI Relationships!, Yokohama, Japan (Host: Shengdong Zhao, 27 April 2025).
• Software Might Have Eaten the World, but Hardware Shape it Invited talk at 2024 KSDS Fall International Conference (2 November 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited talk at the Polytechnic University of Torino, Italy (Host: Luigi De Russis, 14 June 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited talk at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy (Host: Maristella Matera and Salvatore Andolina, 12 June 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited talk at the XLAB in the University of Tokyo, Japan (Host: Masahiko Inami, 31 May 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited talk at the Lifestyle Computing Lab, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan (Host: Yuta Sugiura, 30 May 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited online lecture in the Department of Industrial Design at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan (Host: Chien-Hsu Chen, 23 May 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Lab work Invited lecture at The Universtity of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Host: Masahiko Inami, 23 April 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Lab Introduction Invited seminar talk at Keio University Media Design lab, Tokyo, Japan (Host: Kouta Minamizawa, 16 April 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited seminar talk at the University of Sydney, Australia (Host: Anusha Withana, 14 February 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited seminar talk at the University of Queensland, Australia (Host: Ben Matthews, 8 February 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited seminar talk at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia (Host: Bernd Ploderer, 7 February 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited seminar talk at the University of Melbourne, Australia (Host: Jorge Goncalves, 1 February 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited seminar talk at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia (Host: Danula Hettiachchi, 31 January 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited seminar talk at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (Host: Benjamin Tag, 30 January 2024).
• “If All You Have is a Hammer” - Designing Digitally Augmented Physical Tools Invited seminar talk at the SIGCHI Canberral local chapter at the Australia National University, Canberra, Australia (Host: Josh Andres, 22 January 2024).
• Make Lab Introduction Invited seminar talk at the University of Newcastle, Australia (Host: Karen Blackmore, 15 January 2024).
• Make Lab Introduction Invited seminar talk at the Materalising Memories programme in the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia (Host: Elise van den Hoven, 7 December 2023).
• Embracing Physical Interactions and Hardware in Interactive Systems Invited talk at the Kim Dae-jung Peace Forum 2023 (김대중평화회의 2023), Shinan-gun C-One resort Jaeundo, Mokpo (October 4-6 2023) [video].
• Dagstuhl Seminar 23212 - Designing the Human-Machine Symbiosis Invited seminar at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany (May 22-26 2023) [link].
• When Code Becomes Physical Invited talk at KAIST (CS493), Daejeon, Korea (Host: Prof. Sukyoung Ryu , 22 march 2023) [video].
• Inventive Minds and Ideas: Living in the Future Invited demos at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Seoul, Korea (17-26 December 2022).
• Sketching with Hardware Invited talk at Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA, USA) (Host: Michel Pahud, 4 November 2022).
• Sketching with Hardware Invited seminar talk in the Design Department at UNIST, Korea (Host: Ian Oakley, 30 March 2022).
• Sketching with Hardware Invited seminar talk at National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Host: Lung-Pan Cheng, 11 March 2022).
• Sketching with Hardware Invited seminar talk at the Interactions Lab (iLab), University of Calgary, Canada (Host: Ryo Suzuki, 9 February 2022).
• Bridging between Realities Invited talk as part of the panel discussion “The Future Trends in VR/AR Interactions” at MIMSVAI 2021 (26 September 2021).
• Tips on writing HCI papers Invited talk at ACM SIGCHI Korea Local Chapter (Workshop at HCI Korea 2020), KAIST, Korea (20 August 2020).
• Sketching with Hardware Invited talk at the Design 3.0 Forum, KAIST, Korea (November 15 2019).
• Designing for the body Invited seminar Center for the Center for Anthropocene Studies (13th colloquium), KAIST, Korea (November 7 2019).
• Dagstuhl Seminar 19232 - Ubiquitous Computing Education: Why, What, and How Invited seminar at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany (June 3-7 2019)[link].
• Augmenting interactions with wearable and tangible interfaces Invited talk at the GIST AI Forum 2018, Gwangju, Korea (13 November 2018).
• G-ITRC Project Exhibition, Coex, Seoul (2018.05).
• Tips on writing an HCI paper Invited talk at Winter HCI@KAIST Workshop, KAIST, Korea (13 February 2018).
• Augmenting interaction with wearable and tangible interfaces Invited talk at the 2017 Spring GSCT Seminar, KAIST, Korea (4 April 2017).
• Designing for the Body Invited talk at “2017 International Convergent Technology Seminar: Future Tech for the manufacturing engineering” - at the Creative Convergent Manufacturing Engineering department in Dankook University, Korea (13 February 2017).
• Designing for the Body Invited talk at KAIST “The First Wednesday Interdisciplinary Forum” - Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Dept. of Industrial Design, KAIST, Korea (7 December 2016).
• Designing for the Body Invited talk at Sungkyunkwan University IT technology seminar, Suwon, Korea (November 10 2016).
• The importance of chance Invited talk at KAIST 2015 Year-End Party, KAIST, Korea (2 December 2015).
• Tips & Tricks for Writing Papers Invited talk at Eeum: “Design Connects” 2015 International Design Congress, Gwangju, Korea (17-23 October 2015).
• Designing for the hands Invited talk at Department of Human and System Engineering - UNIST, Korea (26 May 2015).
• The Culture of Tangible Interaction Invited talk at Department of Industrial Design - Chonbuk National University, Korea (18 Dec 2014).
• The Culture of Technology Invited talk at BIEN 2013, Sheraton Grande Walkerhill, Seoul, Korea (22 August 2013).
• Vanquishing Voyeurs: Secure Ways To Authenticate Insecurely (with Andrew Zoz Brooks) Talk at DEFCON 19, Las Vegas, USA (August 4-7 2011).
• Toward a shift in the authentication process Seminar at LG Electronics, Seoul, Korea (23 March 2011).
• Spinlock Talk at the Korean Haptic Workshop 2011, KIST, Seoul (21 October 2011).
• Haptic Passwords Talk at UXCamp Barcamp Seoul, Korea (27 February 2010).
• The Haptic Wheel Talk at Haptics Research Workshop, Daejeon, Korea (23 February 2010).
• Haptic Wheel Demo at KES 2009 (Korea Electronics Show 2009), KINTEX - Korea International Exhibition Center, Korea (14-18 October 2009).
• Invisible Robots Talk at the Open Session at Lift Asia Conference, Jeju, Korea (September 4-6, 2008).

Starting October 2023

• KBS 2025 Global Live (2025년 1월 1일 KBS 신년기획 ＜ 2025 글로벌 라이브＞) (2025.1.1) 201K viewslink.
• YouTube interview with Softdragon SOD 애플은 진짜 미친놈들입니다.. 이 대단한 걸 왜 안 알려준걸까? ㄷㄷ | 카이스트 Ep4 (2024.09.02) 634K views link
• YouTube interview with Softdragon SOD 버려진 국장, 한국의 미래는? (2024.11.18) 51K views link
• Chosun Biz 한국 과학에 반하다]2 ‘아아’ 푹 빠진 伊 컴퓨터 과학자… “내 이름은 안두리 (2024.10.23) [link]