Hyun Seung Moon

mzes0401@kaist.ac.kr

Google Scholar · GitHub · LinkedIn

I study how people learn what can't be taught — by talking with AI that plays the other side.

Education

2026 –

KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Ph.D. student, Industrial Design — AI Experience Lab

Minor in Data Science (KAIST Graduate School of Data Science), since Fall 2026

Advisor: Prof. Tak Yeon Lee · Human-AI Interaction, AI interlocutors, simulation-based learning

2024 – 2026

KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

M.S., Industrial Design — AI Experience Lab

Thesis: When I Need a Stand-in: Building Artificial Social Actors for Negotiation with User-Guided Inference and Disclosure

2014 – 2022

Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

B.S., Industrial Engineering

Publications

International Conference Papers (Peer Reviewed)

C3

CineTalk: Designing an LLM Chatbot for Exploring Diverse Perspectives in Digital Content Appreciation

Gahyeon Bae, Gahyeon Kim, Hyun Seung Moon, Tak Yeon Lee, Hwajung Hong

ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI 2026), Short Paper · DOI

C2

Toward Flexible Psychiatric History-Taking and Visualization: Exploring Clinician Perspectives with Large Language Models

Yugyeong Jung, Thu Hoang Anh Vo, Hyun Seung Moon, Jae Young Choi, Hyangkyeong Oh, Ujin Lee, Eunjoo Kim, Tak Yeon Lee, Uichin Lee

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) · Evaluated with 1,440 simulated dialogues and 19 clinicians · DOI

C1

HistoChat: Leveraging AI-Driven Historical Personas for Personalized and Engaging Middle School History Education

Yeon Soo Kim, Hyun Seung Moon (co-first author), Sangsu Lee, Tak Yeon Lee

ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2025) · DOI · Demo

Posters & Workshop Papers

L1

Understanding How Creators Collaborate with Conversational Agents in Short-Form Video Production

Hyun Lee, Yoonjae Oh, Hyun Seung Moon, Tak Yeon Lee

ACM CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts (Late Breaking Work) · DOI

Manuscripts in Preparation

M1

Designing Synthetic Consumer Agent System in the Wild: A Research through Design Study with Enterprise Practitioners

Hyun Lee, Hyun Seung Moon (co-first author), Jinwoo Jeong, Kunwoo Lee, Seowon Lee, Jin Jeong, Seon Gyeom Kim, JaeYoung Choi, Minsun Kim, Ji-Dong Yim, Tak Yeon Lee

Manuscript in preparation · Four-month deployment with 47 practitioners at LG Electronics

Work & Research Experiences

2025 –

Osler — Voice AI Agent for Medical Consultation, Asan Medical Center

PM & Lead Researcher

Voice agent for breast cancer preoperative counseling; prospective pilot clinical study measuring patient comprehension, satisfaction, and anxiety · Web

2025 –

Voice-based Virtual Patient for Psychiatric CPX Training, Severance Hospital · ICLab (KAIST)

PM & Lead Researcher

LLM virtual patient system with clinically grounded personas for on-demand psychiatric interview training

2024 – 2025

SCAS (Lifegraphy) — Synthetic Consumer Agent System, LG Electronics CX Center

Co-lead researcher

Turned a 4,000-respondent lifestyle survey into eight clusters of conversational consumer agents through three Research-through-Design phases; four-month internal deployment with 47 practitioners across six departments

2025

Financial Podcast AI Playground, NH Investment & Securities

Researcher

AI podcast generation from MTS asset data and real-time market information

2025

AI Short-form Video Automation Pipeline, NH Investment & Securities

Researcher

Human-AI co-creation pipeline automating 1-minute financial videos from daily reports

Awards, Grants and Recognitions

2026

Red Dot Award: Design Concept — Winner

STAT: Emergency AI Agent

2025

IDEA Award — Finalist

AIRCUBE: Emergency Air Supply System

Press

2026.2

Finding "hidden customers" by talking with virtual ones, and AI that handles breakdowns

Dong-A Ilbo, Economy · 2026-02-04 · Coverage of the LG Electronics synthetic consumer agent collaboration · Article

2026.4

CHI 2026 psychiatric interviewer research

Herald Economy · KAIST News · Herald · KAIST

Employment

2022 – 2023

Gallma, Seoul, Korea

Co-Founder · Game Director

Solo-developed Giida, an art gallery-themed history education game

2017

LuxRobo, Seoul, Korea

Software Engineer

2016 – 2017

YonkoTV / Youniv, Seoul, Korea

Co-Founder & Chief Data Officer

University media platform — 2.77M subscribers, 1.4B+ views · YouTube · Youniv

Skills

Programming

Python · JavaScript/TypeScript · C++ (Unreal Engine)

Analysis

R · SPSS · pandas/scikit-learn · thematic analysis · SEM

Design

Figma · Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator · rapid prototyping

Languages

Korean (native) · English (fluent)