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MAKE

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REAL

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FROM IMAGINATION
TO REALITY
ABOUT

ABOUT

 

KYUNG YUN CHOI

KYUNG YUN (goes by Yun) Is a PhD candidate and Research Assistant

at Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab.

She is an engineer, designer, and artist. The overarching aim of her research efforts has always been to create a new interactive interface that extends the space of user experience by enabling the transmission of emotional and tactile information. To this end, her objective is to develop this new medium that expands the range of our perceptions for the improved embodiment with focuses on soft robotics, multi-functional composite structure and material, and digital fabrication.

Prior to joining the Media Lab, Kyung Yun developed two Cube satellites as a chief engineer of the structural and thermal control system in conjunction with NASA GSFC. Also, she has worked on developing a myoelectric prosthetic hand at the Bretl Research Group and at the start-up company, PSYONIC, as a lead mechanical engineer. She received her B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea and her M.S in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Kyung Yun is a recipient of the Korean Government Scholarship for Study Overseas in 2014, and the Kwanjeong scholarship for her graduate studies in 2017 and 2019.

Outside of the lab, you may find her painting, backpacking in nature, and hopefully soon driving a space shuttle in space :)

MEDIA APPEARANCE

"Meet the 2022 LEGO Papert Fellows"
MIT Media Lab, 2022
Image from MIT Media Lab
"From Imagination to Reality"
MIT Abstracts, 2022
"Little Big e-Motion Project"
Hyundai Motor Group, 2021
"Speculative machines produce existential wonder"
MIT News, 2020
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FastCompany.JPG
"Smashable Fingers"
IEEE Spectrum, 2017
"Bretl’s group develops
impact resistant fingers for prosthetic hand"
Coordinated Science Lab at UIUC, 2017
"AE grad student's robotic prosthetic hand project  
reaches finals in Research Live! competition"
Aerospace Engineering at UIUC, 2016
Host of TV show "Themes of Around the World: Colombia"
EBS TV, 2014, Korea
Keynote speaker of  TV show
"15mins that Changes the World"
CBS TV, 2012, Korea
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