Profile

Taiwoo Park

Ph.D. Candidate (Advisor: Junehwa Song)
KAIST, Korea

E-mail: twpark AT nclab.kaist.ac.kr
Phone: +82-70-8628-3586

Research Interests
  • Pervasive Games
    • Exertion Games (Exergames) and Supporting System
    • Understanding pervasive gaming behaviors
  • Mobile User Interaction
    • Hand Gesture Interaction in On-the-go Situation
  • Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
    • Personal Context-Aware Computing
  • Sensor Network and Data Stream Processing System

Education
  • M.S., Computer Science, KAIST, February 2008
    • Advisor: Junehwa Song
    • Thesis Title: Design and implementation of game modeling and execution framework supporting next-generation ubiquitous games
  • B.S., Computer Science, KAIST, August 2005

Honors and Awards
  • Best Demo Award, "ExerLink: Enabling Pervasive Social Exergames with Heterogeneous Exercise Devices", ACM MobiSys 2012
  • Best Demo Award, "E-Gesture: A Collaborative Architecture for Energy-efficient Gesture Recognition with Hand-worn Sensor and Mobile Devices", IEEE SECON 2012
  • Best Demo Honorable Mention, "ExerLink: Enabling Pervasive Social Exergames with Heterogeneous Exercise Devices", IEEE SECON 2012
  • Graduate Study Scholarship, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, 2006 ~ 2011
  • Best Teaching Assistant Award, Computer Science, KAIST, Mar. 2010
  • Cum laude graduation, KAIST, 2005
  • 4th Place, The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2003 (ICPC'03)
    • Asia Regional, Seoul, ACM, 2003