Chang Hee Lee (이창희/李昌熙) PhD FRSA is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design in School of Engineering and

Director of Affective Systems and Cognition lab (asc.kaist.ac.kr) at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science ​and

Technology). Before joining KAIST, He was a Tutor (Assistant Professor) and 2nd Year Programme Leader in

Innovation Design Engineering (IDE)—a programme that runs jointly between the Royal College of Art (RCA) and

the Imperial College London (ICL). He is a Visiting Research Fellow at CSRC (Computer Science Research Centre)

at the Royal College of Art (RCA), and an invited ​Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).


Chang is interested in finding new meanings for interaction to explore novel methods of communication

between human and machine. His experiments have led him to investigate a variety of sources such as

interaction design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), embedded system, experience design, communication

system, wellbeing, synaesthesia, perception, play, tools, creativity, and so on.


He was featured in the UK Design Council's One's to Watch list, a list of the 70 most talented emerging designers

in the UK. He was also elected by the Overseas Korean Foundation (OKF) as one of Korean Future Leaders. His

research and projects have been widely discussed at institutions such as the Royal College of Art (RCA), Harvard

University, University College London (UCL), Carnegie Mellon University, Camden Arts Centre and the Open

Senses festival. His work has appeared in various print publications, such as the Design Journal and the book

Synaesthesia (MIT Press, 2018), as well as online platforms such as BBC, WIRED, and ACM Interactions. His

research has been published and distributed on internationally recognised domains such as ACM CHI

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Acta Astronautica, International Association of

Societies of Design Research (IASDR), ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), and MobileHCI.


He has a PhD in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art (RCA). He is a graduate of the

Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and obtained his master’s in Design Critical Practice at Goldsmiths,

University of London.