Donghoon Shin 신동훈

Portrait of Donghoon Shin

I am an HCI researcher and a Ph.D. candidate in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Gary Hsieh and Lucy Lu Wang

My research lies at the intersection of HCI and AI, where I build systems that streamline the dissemination, access, and consumption of complex documents (e.g., scholarly papers) to support real-world practices (e.g., design, healthcare). To achieve this, I draw on techniques from document understanding, UI understanding, and conversational agents

I received my B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering and B.A. in Information Science at Seoul National University, where I was honored to be the Presidential Science Scholar. Previously, I was a research intern at Microsoft Research, Google Research, Adobe Research, and Naver AI, and a software engineer at Elecle

I am honored to be selected as the ACM Future Leader of AI and the Korean Government Scholar for Overseas Studies

Selected publications

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Paper2Card

CHI '24

Transforms HCI papers into design cards

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PosterMate

UIST '25

Multi-agent system to support simulated design collaboration

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ReFinE

DIS '26

Turns research findings into actionable UI design support

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What About My Design Context?

DIS '25

Tailors design artifacts to designers' individual context

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PaperTok

CHI '26

Transforms scholarly papers into engaging short-form videos

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Theorizing design with AI

CHI '24

Supports casual theorizing directly within the design workflow

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IntroBot

CHI '23

Chatbot to support familiarization among ad hoc teammates

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DiaryMate

CHI '24

LLM-infused system to support reflective writing

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News

Jun 30, 2026

Selected as a 2026 ACM Future Leader of AI

I'm honored to be selected to participate in the 2026 ACM Future Leaders of AI

Mar 18, 2026

One paper accepted to DIS 2026

One paper on leveraging academic insights to support UI design iteration has been accepted to DIS 2026 and featured on the UW HCDE website

Jan 14, 2026

One paper accepted to CHI 2026

One paper on AI-assisted science communication has been accepted to CHI 2026

Travel & Talk

Jul 2026 SNU Seoul, Korea 🇰🇷

Jun 2026 Singapore HCI Singapore, Singapore 🇸🇬

Jun 2026 DIS 2026 Singapore, Singapore 🇸🇬

Mar 2026 Sejong University Seoul, Korea 🇰🇷

Nov 2025 Microsoft Research Remote 🇺🇸

Sep 2025 UIST 2025 Busan, Korea 🇰🇷

Jul 2025 CUI 2025 Waterloo, ON 🇨🇦

Jul 2025 DIS 2025 Madeira, Portugal 🇵🇹

Jun 2025 Microsoft Research New York, NY 🇺🇸

Jun 2025 KAIST Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷