Ji Yonggu (M) is an industrial engineering specialist researching human engineering and human-computer interaction (HCI). He majored in Industrial Engineering at Seoul National University and has a master's in engineering from the same university. He researched factory automation for his master's. He did his PhD in industrial engineering at Purdue University in the USA, where he researched human engineering and HCI under professor Gavriel Salvendy. He received his PhD in 2001 and has focused on education and research for 14 years at Yonsei University, after working at SDS and Soongsil University. Currently, he is Dean of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Head Professor for Engineering Management at Yonsei Graduate School of Engineering and Head Professor of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Policy.