Miss Chaerim Kim
Miss Chaerim Kim
I study what happens when a dominant sense fails, and how other senses can adapt to make up for it.
I am a PhD student researcher at Monash University’s Neurobionics Lab, exploring how other senses adapt when a dominant one fails.
Currently, I build wrist-worn vibrotactile devices—essentially a wearable “virtual cane”—to help people with limited vision navigate using touch and audio cues.
My background is in biomedical engineering, moving from clinical signals (ECG and CT) to human perception. Today, I combine signal processing, VR, and hand-built haptics to understand why sensory compensation works using biosignals like EEG and EMG.
Having lived and worked in South Korea, Denmark, and Australia, I strive to do research that stays close to both the science and the people it helps.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical) , Konkuk University, 2023
Research Interests
- Haptic feedback
- Human-computer interaction
- Wearable devices
- Multimodal perception
- Assistive Technology
- Spatial Alignment of Audio–Haptic Directional Feedback Shapes Non-Visual Hand Guidance, International Journal of Human – Computer Studies (preprinted), Link
Supervision
PHD
Yan Tat Wong
Wrist-Worn Vibrotactile Feedback for Spatial Guidance under Constrained Vision
2024 to 2028
Teaching Commitments
- ECE4191 - Engineering integrated design
- ECE4081 - Medical instrumentation
- ECE4087 - Medical technology innovation
- ECE4076 - Computer Vision
- ECE3073 - Computer System
- TRC3500 - Sensors and artificial perception
Awards and Achievement
Presentations and Conferences
- Neuroscience (SfN, San Diego, CA, 2025)
- Poster presentation
- IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society – International Conference on Neural Engineering (EMBS, San Diego, CA, 2025)
- Poster presentation
- Engineering and Physical Sciences in Medicine Conference + Australian Biomedical Engineering Conference (EPSM + ABEC, Melbourne, 2024)
- Oral presentation, ‘Haptic feedback systems for directional guidance in visually impaired mobility’
- The Korean Society for Radiation Oncology (KOSRO, 2023)
- Oral presentation, ‘Automatic segmentation for head and neck patients with the segment anything model (SAM)’
- Korean Society of Medical Physics (KSMP, 2023)
- Poster
- Medical Hackathon (Konkuk University, Konkuk University Meidcal Center, 2022)
- The Top Prize
Other Academic Achievements
- Monash International tuition Scholarship (MITS, 2024-present)
- Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS, 2024-present)
- Konkuk University Global Scholarship (2021)
- Konkuk University Academic Scholarship (2020)
- Konkuk University PRIME Scholarship (2018-2020)
- Software Convergence Major Scholarship (Konkuk University, 2018-2019)