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 human-computer interaction, interaction design, information visualization, visual analytics, and health informatics.

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 has been serving on the steering committee of the PacificVis symposium, trying to build a strong visualization research community in the asia pacific region. He has also served as a papers co-chair for PacificVis. He has served on the program committees in the field of visualization and HCI; IEEE InfoVis, IEEE VAST, IEEE PacificVis, and ACM CHI.

He received his BS and MS (in AI) degrees in Computer Science 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.