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. 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, and Microsoft.
