Kim, Hee Won
- Major
- History and Philosophy of Computing Technologies and AI
- Position
- Assistant Professor
- heewonkim@jbnu.ac.kr
Education
- Ph.D., Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, KAIST, February 2025.
- M.S., Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University, August 2016.
- B.S., Biological Sciences, KAIST, February 2014.
- M.S., Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University, August 2016.
- B.S., Biological Sciences, KAIST, February 2014.
Professional Experience
Jang Young Sil Postdoctoral Fellow, KAIST.
Selected Publications
Heewon Kim, “Databasing the Face: The Rise of Data-Centrism in Computerized Facial Expression Recognition,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (In Press).
Heewon Kim, “Vanguard of National Development: Keypunch Operators and the Gendered Dimension of Early Computing in South Korea,” The Korean Journal for the History of Science, vol. 47, no. 2 (2025), 235–263.
Heewon Kim, “Paul Ekman and the Search for the Isolated Face in the 1960s,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 60, no. 4 (2024), e22322.
Kyungjin Nam, Heewon Kim, Suwon Kang, and Hyojin Kim, “The BTS ARMY on Twitter Flocks Together: How Transnational Fandom on Social Media Builds a Viable System,” Telematics and Informatics, vol. 91 (2024), 102143.
Seulgi Lee, Heewon Kim, and Scott Gabriel Knowles, “Beyond the Accident Republic: Making Life and Safety with Disaster Memorials in Korea,” The Korean Journal for the History of Science, vol. 45, no. 2 (2023), 365–395.
Heewon Kim and Hyungsub Choi, “From Hwangsa to COVID-19: The Rise of Mass Masking in South Korea,” East Asian Science, Technology, and Society, vol. 16, no. 1 (2022), 97–109.
Heewon Kim and Hyungsub Choi, “COVID-19 and the Reenactment of Mass Masking in South Korea,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 43, no. 44 (2021).
Heewon Kim and Sungeun Kim, “Computing in the Anthropocene: How Computing Technologies Mediate between the Human and the Earth,” The Korean Journal of Science and Technology Studies, vol. 20, no. 1 (2020), 113–155 (Published in Korean).
Heewon Kim, “Vanguard of National Development: Keypunch Operators and the Gendered Dimension of Early Computing in South Korea,” The Korean Journal for the History of Science, vol. 47, no. 2 (2025), 235–263.
Heewon Kim, “Paul Ekman and the Search for the Isolated Face in the 1960s,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 60, no. 4 (2024), e22322.
Kyungjin Nam, Heewon Kim, Suwon Kang, and Hyojin Kim, “The BTS ARMY on Twitter Flocks Together: How Transnational Fandom on Social Media Builds a Viable System,” Telematics and Informatics, vol. 91 (2024), 102143.
Seulgi Lee, Heewon Kim, and Scott Gabriel Knowles, “Beyond the Accident Republic: Making Life and Safety with Disaster Memorials in Korea,” The Korean Journal for the History of Science, vol. 45, no. 2 (2023), 365–395.
Heewon Kim and Hyungsub Choi, “From Hwangsa to COVID-19: The Rise of Mass Masking in South Korea,” East Asian Science, Technology, and Society, vol. 16, no. 1 (2022), 97–109.
Heewon Kim and Hyungsub Choi, “COVID-19 and the Reenactment of Mass Masking in South Korea,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 43, no. 44 (2021).
Heewon Kim and Sungeun Kim, “Computing in the Anthropocene: How Computing Technologies Mediate between the Human and the Earth,” The Korean Journal of Science and Technology Studies, vol. 20, no. 1 (2020), 113–155 (Published in Korean).
Books
Heewon Kim, AI for Human Recognition (Seoul: Commbooks, 2025) (Published in Korean).
Heewon Kim and Hyungsub Choi, “COVID-19 and the Reenactment of Mass Masking in South Korea,” Mask Panorama (Seoul: Moonji, 2022) (Published in Korean).
Chihyung Jeon, Sungeun Kim, Heewon Kim, Miryang Kang, Breathing Community: Science and Politics of Particulate Matter, COVID-19, and Heat Waves (Seoul: Changbi, 2021) (Published in Korean).
Translation
Co-translator for the Korean translation of Jasanoff, Shelia. Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States (Princeton University Press, 2005),
Heewon Kim and Hyungsub Choi, “COVID-19 and the Reenactment of Mass Masking in South Korea,” Mask Panorama (Seoul: Moonji, 2022) (Published in Korean).
Chihyung Jeon, Sungeun Kim, Heewon Kim, Miryang Kang, Breathing Community: Science and Politics of Particulate Matter, COVID-19, and Heat Waves (Seoul: Changbi, 2021) (Published in Korean).
Translation
Co-translator for the Korean translation of Jasanoff, Shelia. Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States (Princeton University Press, 2005),