Dr. Joon Sang Baek is an assistant professor in the School of Design and Human Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). His research areas include design for social innovation, sociotechnical systems design, sustainable design, and nature-inspired design. His current research focuses on systems design for social changes. He received his PhD at Politecnico di Milano with a dissertation on the design for grassroots social innovations empowered by information communication technologies. Before joining UNIST, he worked as a user experience designer at Samsung Mobile, a visiting researcher at the Center for Appropriate Technologies in Vienna and the Hope Institute (a social innovation think tank) in Seoul.
