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Tek-Jin Nam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Design at KAIST, Korea. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. in industrial design from KAIST and Ph.D from the Department of Design, Brunel University. He leads Co.design:Inter.action Design Research Laboratory at KAIST. He is an executive director of Korea Society of Design Science. As a researcher and practitioner, he is interested in generating and integrating design knowledge for practice and education. His main research areas are collaborative design, interaction design and advanced prototyping for interactive products and systems.

• Executive Director of Korea Society of Design Science
• Special Session Chair of IASDR2009 Seoul International Design Conference
• Organizer of IASDR2013 Invited Session (Blending design resesarch and practice)
• Jury of 2013 iF concept design award
• ACM SIGCHI CHI2015 conference preparation committee member
• Review Board, National Research Foundation of Korea.

email: tjnam@kaist.ac.kr