Sueyoon is a designer, technologist, researcher, and Ashtangi 🧘🏻♀️.
Born and raised in Korea, with high school years in Beijing and now based in Amsterdam, her multicultural experiences have shaped a deep understanding of human perspectives, culture, and art—sharpening her keen eye for design. She is fluent in Korean, English, and Chinese, with limited skills in French and Dutch 🇰🇷🇺🇸🇨🇳🇫🇷🇳🇱.
She holds a BSc in Industrial Design from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology), graduating magna cum laude, and an MS in Design for Interaction from TU Delft (Delft University of Technology), where she was a full scholarship recipient (top 1%).
After her studies, she designed and researched human interactions in and around Virtual Reality at CWI (the Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science) for several years. She also led human-centered design workshops and gave talks at companies, schools, and events across 10+ countries, working with participants from over 15 nationalities. Her combined expertise in design and technology added value to her teams.
Since September 2024, she has temporarily returned to TU Delft to assist in running a VR prototyping course, supporting students through brainstorming workshops and applying her expertise in VR and facilitation.
Experience;
Design Researcher | Lecturer
Sep 2024 - Present • Delft, Netherlands
Design Researcher | XR Engineer
February 2021 - August 2024 • Amsterdam, Netherlands
Game Designer
X!Delft x Aegon
November 2019 - February 2020 • Delft, Netherlands
Research Intern
August 2019 - Apr 2019 • Seoul, Korea
UX • UI Designer
August 2017 - December 2017 • Seoul, Korea
Research Intern
June 2017 - August 2017 • Boston, United States
XR Lecturer
September 2016 - July 2017 • Daejeon, Korea
Education;
MS. Design for Interaction, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
* Full-ride scholarship (60000 euros) - top 2 out of 300
Delft, Netherlands
BS. Industrial Design, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
* Magna Cum Laude, Dean's List, Full-ride scholarship, Korea Government Scholarship
Daejeon, Korea
Yew Chung International School of Beijing (YCIS Beijing)
* Valedictorian
Beijing, China
Projects;
* Role: Design Researcher & XR Design Engineer / Budget: €9M (total) - European Union
October 2022 - 2024
* Role: Design Researcher / Budget: €4.78M (total) - European Union
October 2022 - 2024
* Role: Design Researcher & VR Design Engineer / Budget: European Union
2020 - 2022
Publications;
2024
Lee, S., Viola, I., Rossi, S., Guo, Z., Reimat, I., Lawicka, K., Striner, A., & Cesar, P. (2024). "Designing and Evaluating a VR Lobby for a Socially Enriching Remote Opera Watching Experience," in IEEE TVCG Journal’ 24
Lee, S., Viola, I., Singla, A., & Cesar, P. (2024). “Communication Challenges between Clients and Producers of Immersive Media Applications: can Social XR help?”, in ACM IMX ’24
2022
Lee, S., El Ali, A., Wijntjes, M., & Cesar, P. (2022). Understanding and Designing Avatar Biosignal Visualizations for Social Virtual Reality Entertainment. in CHI ’22
Lee, S., Striner, A., & Cesar, P. (2022). Designing a VR Lobby for Remote Opera Social Experiences. poster in ACM IMX ’22
El Ali, A., Lee, S., & Cesar, P. (2022). Social Virtual Reality Avatar Biosignal Animations as Availability Status Indicators. Position paper. Presented at CHI 2022 Workshop "Social Presence in Virtual Event Spaces".
2021
Designing and Evaluating Avatar Biosignal Visualization Techniques in Social Virtual Reality Master’s Thesis • TU Delft
Talks;
2024
“Co-design” May 30, 2024 • Maru 360, Seoul
2023
“A Practical Guide to Human-Centered Design Workshop: How to utilize co-creation for Extended Reality” Oct 19, 2023 • Stereopsia Europe 2023, Brussels
“A Practical Guide to Human-Centered Design Workshop: How to get the most value out in 2 hours from strangers” August 11, 2023 • Cognizant, Rotterdam
2021
“Social VR and Opera” December 7, 2021 • Artistic Musical Society of Pousos
“Social VR and Opera: immersive shared performing arts experiences” November 17, 2021 • VRDays2021
Honors & awards;
Justus en Louise van Effen Excellence Scholarship (60000 euro) 2019-2021 • TU Delft
Magna Cum Laude (Excellence in Leadership & Volunteer Activities) 2019 • KAIST
Guwon Scholarship (Industrial Design) 2016 Spring / 2016 Fall / 2017 Spring / 2017 Fall • Guwon Scholarship Foundation
Academic Excellence Scholarship (Industrial Design) 2016 Spring / 2016 Fall / 2017 Spring • KAIST
Excellent Paper Presentation Award 2016 • Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers
Dean's List (Engineering Department) 2016 • KAIST
National Scholarship for Outstanding Engineers 2016-2017 • National Student Aid Foundation
KAIST Leadership Award 2016 • KAIST + Research Institute for Social Technology and Innovation
Idea Contest (3rd Place) 2016 • KAIST
Excellent Performance in Volunteering (Ethiopia) 2015 • KAIST
Certificate of Excellence 2015 • Startup KAIST
Highest Academic Achievement Award (Valedictorian) 2014 • YCIS Beijin
Volunteers & community;
CSCW 2023 (ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing) / Reviewer 2023
NAVER Connect Foundation / Tech Translator 2018 - 2019
KAIST Global Volunteers / IT • Science Educator 2015 - 2016 • Ethiopia, Cambodia
KAIST / CS101 Tutor 2017 - 2018 • Daejeon, Korea
KAIST Freshman Department / Proctor 2016 - 2017 • Daejeon, Korea
Korea Design Membership 2016 - 2018 • Daejeon, Korea
KAIST Tennis Club, STROKE / President 2015 • Daejeon, Korea