Bridging people with AI agents.
I'm Sangwook Lee, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, advised by Prof. Sang Won Lee in the echolab. I work at the intersection of Human-AI Interaction, social computing, and accessibility.
I build and deploy LLM-based agents that bridge gaps between people, while keeping users in control of what agents do on their behalf:
- Knowledge gap: turning everyday lab communication into organizational memory (CHOIR, CHI '26 Honorable Mention)
- Digital divide: adapting GUIs and navigation to each user's preferences (MAESTRO, UIST '26)
- Expertise gap: letting domain experts, not engineers, shape AI behavior (ModSandbox, CHI '23; SCORE, in progress)
Last Update: 2026-09-24
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MAESTRO: Adapting GUIs and Guiding Navigation with User Preferences in Conversational Agents with GUIs
Sangwook Lee, Adnan Abbas, Sang Won Lee, Young-Ho Kim, Yan ChenACM UIST 2026

CHOIR: A Chatbot-mediated Organizational Memory Leveraging Communication in University Research Labs
Sangwook Lee, Adnan Abbas, Yan Chen, Young-Ho Kim, Sang Won LeeACM CHI 2026

ModSandbox: Facilitating Online Community Moderation Through Error Prediction and Improvement of Automated Rules
Sangwook Lee*, Jean Y. Song*, Jisoo Lee, Mina Kim, Juho Kim (*equal contribution)ACM CHI 2023

LaneMate: Car Sensing System for the Deaf
Sangwook Lee, Yunho Kang, Yukyoung LeeACM CHI 2016 Student Design Competition