PROFILE

Gaeun (GL) Lee 

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Interests: HCI · Wellbeing & Mental Health · Wearable Devices · Sensing · Interaction ·  Ubiquitous Computing



🔗 More about me and my research

CV

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Education
University of Illinois Chicago
B.Sc. Computer Science + Design (Honors), May 2026
4.0 / 4.0

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ResearchResearch Assistant Learning+Interest+Technology Lab, UIC (2023– )

VR Developer / Research Assistant
Fulfillment Project, Electronic Visualization Lab
UIC, Anthropology UChicago (NSF #2121737, 2025– )

Teaching Assistant
CS 211 Programming Practicum, UIC (2025– )

Research Intern
HCI Lab, KAIST (Summer 2025)

LLM/NLP Intern 
Illinois Dept. of Transportation (2023)

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Exhibitions
Fulfillment Exhibition (CAVE2)
ACM Hypertext 2025
UIC Electronic Visualization Lab
  
Fulfillment Poster Exhibition ACM Hypertext 2025
Illinois Institute of Technology  (IIT)

You Can Grow Here SIGGRAPH 2025 Poster Vancouver Convention Center  

Creative Coding
VR Exhibition 2025
UIC Electronic Visualization Lab

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PublicationsLee, G. et al. (2025). You Can Grow Here: A Therapeutic VR Journey for Anxiety Management. SIGGRAPH ’25 Posters.

Ibtasar, R., Lee, G. et al. (2025). Pre-Coding Scaffolds for Computational Thinking. ICLS 2025.

Tsoupikova, D., Y. Chu, J., et al. (2025). CAVE2 Virtual Reality Exhibition: Project Fulfillment. ACM Hypertext ’25.

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Awards & RecognitionStudent Engagement Rising Leader Award

Blaze Venture Speech Challenge Finalist

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Professional & Academic AffiliationsPresenter, ACM SIGGRAPH 2025

Member, ACM SIGGRAPH

Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Leadership & ServicePresident, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association YG Chicagoland

Tech Lead, UIC ACM

CS+DES Representative, Student Design Advisory Board

Moderator, MLK Student Leadership Conference
               



Last Updated 25.11.03