Jinwook Seo is the first professor who founded an HCI research program in Seoul National University. He is teaching graduate and undergraduate HCI courses and an information visualization course at the graduate level. His research interests include user interface design, interaction design, information visualization and visual analytics.

As a director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, he helps his students find their potentials as young researchers and achieve their own research goals. Under his guidance, members of the HCI Laboratory perform various research projects derived by their own interests and passions, as well as engage in several interdisciplinary research projects with collaborators in other research fields, industries and government.

He received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from Seoul National University, and Ph.D in Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction, advised by Ben Shneiderman) at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab of the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.