SentimentVoice: Integrating Emotion AI and VR in Performing Arts, has been officially selected for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Immersive Pavilion, to be held in Vancouver, Canada, from August 10–14. We’re honored to be selected by SIGGRAPH as one of this year’s featured projects for a preview spotlight. Check our preview video. The Korea version of this project — SentimentVoice…

The SentimentVoice project was a great success at the CCI opening reception at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, 10/18/2024! I’m so grateful and happy to work with my amazing, wonderful and lovely students The exhibition will run until January 19th at the Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA. The exhibition Info Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI)…

Received the Global Partnership Impact Award for contemporary translation of Korean Cleansing Ritual Ssitgim-gut. This project is in collaboration with Dean Moss, and Prof. Soojung Chae at K’ Arts. Stay tuned!

The article “Facing, Mirroring, and Echoing in Human Avatar Symbiosis” has been published at The Journal Technoetic Arts 22.1, Intellect LTD, Bristol, UK, 2024. (SCOPUS Q1)

The VCU-K Arts collaboration on “XR Arts and Technology, Empowered by Generative and Emotion AI” was funded by the Korea Creative Content Agency and the Korean Ministry of Culture for three years! This project will be an exciting collaboration with VCU Arts, VCU Engineering (developing Emotion AI with two CS professors, Dr. Alberto Cano and…

This presentation will explore my two new projects and upcoming publications.  The first project, SentimentVoice, is a collaborative effort with VCU Computer Science, integrating Emotion AI and Virtual Reality within the realm of Performing Arts. SentimentVoice is a live VR project using emotion-tracking AI to amplify immigrant stories, touching on emotional surveillance, vulnerabilities, and the…

I am the awarded PI (Principal Investigator) for CCI (Commonwealth Cyber Initiative) grant 2023, for my project “SentimentVoice: Integrating emotion AI and VR in Performing Arts”. I have used emotion AI-sentiment analysis algorithm supported by my dear friend Stefano Faralli, CS professor at Univ of Rome, Italy, since 2016. This time, VCU AI professor, Dr.…

-Presented “Therapeutic Puppetry: Embodied Avatar Performance for Children’ Mental Health” at CYP conference, Toronto, Canada, organized by York University, June 16-18, 2023.  -Published a paper “Exploring Tertiary Orality in Virtual Reality” at HCI International conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 23-28, 2023. 

Earned Ph.D with the Highest Honor, from the Doctoral program in Humanities and Communication at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, with thesis:  Embodied Avatar Performance, Han Healing Ritual and Life-Review: Intersections of Art, Health and Virtual Reality. Huge thanks for my most wonderful advisors- Ardevol Elisenda Mediaccions, Cristina Miranda de Almeida, Derrick de Kerckhove, And best committee…

This is an article “A Creative Cure” featured in Richmond Magazine that I am a part of. https://richmondmagazine.com/life-style/health/vcu-health-arts-in-healthcare/