SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Nam Wook Kim
Assistant Professor
Nam Wook Kim
Ph.D.
Contact
245 Beacon Street 428B
Telephone: 617-552-8003
Email: nam.wook.kim@bc.edu
Education
- B.S., Stony Brook University
- M.S., Stanford University
- Ph.D. Harvard University
Research Interests
Data Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Accessibility, AI-Driven Applications, Creative Computing
Department
Biography
Nam Wook Kim is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston College. His research vision is to bring data within reach of broader audiences, enabling people to better understand, interact with, and communicate data. He investigates these challenges through the lens of data visualization and human-computer interaction, developing new methods and tools to innovate how we engage with data. His work has been recognized with awards from ACM CHI, ACM UIST, and the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, and is supported by the National Science Foundation.
He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University, where he was supported by the Kwanjeong Educational Foundation and the Siebel Scholars Foundation. During his doctoral studies, he interned at Microsoft Research, Disney Research, and Adobe Research. Prior to Harvard, he was a research associate at KAIST and worked as a research engineer at Samsung and LG. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Stony Brook University.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Joshua Gorniak, Yoon Kim, Donglai Wei, Nam Wook Kim. VizAbility: Enhancing Chart Accessibility with LLM-based Conversational Interaction. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2024.
- Jinhan Choi, Changhoon Oh, Yea-Seul Kim, Nam Wook Kim. VisLab: Enabling Visualization Designers to Gather Empirically Informed Design Feedback. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023.
- Shakila Cherise Joyner, Amalia Riegelhuth, Kathleen Garrity, Yea-Seul Kim, Nam Wook Kim. Visualization Accessibility in the Wild: Challenges Faced by Visualization Designers. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2022.
- Shahid Latif, Zheng Zhou, Yoon Kim, Fabian Beck, Nam Wook Kim. Kori: Interactive Synthesis of Text and Charts in Data Documents. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS), 2021.
- Nam Wook Kim, Shakila Joyner, Amalia Riegelhuth, Yea-Seul Kim. Accessible Visualization: Design Space, Opportunities, and Challenges. Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis), 2021.
- Nam Wook Kim, Nathalie Henry Riche, Benjamin Bach, Guanpeng Xu, Matthew Brehmer, Ken Hinckley, Michel Pahud, Haijun Xia, Michael McGuffin, Hanspeter Pfister. DataToon: Drawing Dynamic Network Comics With Pen + Touch Interaction. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019.
- Nam Wook Kim, Benjamin Bach, Hyejin Im, Sasha Schriber, Markus Gross, Hanspeter Pfister. Visualizing Nonlinear Narratives with Story Curves. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis), 2017.
- Nam Wook Kim*, Zoya Bylinskii*, Michelle A. Borkin, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Aude Oliva, Fredo Durand, Hanspeter Pfister. BubbleView: An Interface for Crowdsourcing Image Importance Maps and Tracking Visual Attention. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 2017
- Nam Wook Kim, Eston Schweickart, Zhicheng Liu, Mira Dontcheva, Wilmot Li, Jovan Popovic, Hanspeter Pfister. Data-Driven Guides: Supporting Expressive Design for Information Graphics. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis), 2016.
- Michelle A. Borkin*, Zoya Bylinskii*, Nam Wook Kim, Constance May Bainbridge, Chelsea S. Yeh, Daniel Borkin, Hanspeter Pfister, and Aude Oliva. Beyond Memorability: Visualization Recognition and Recall. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis), 2015.