Daeeun (Dan) Kim

B.S. in Data Science, School of Information Convergence

• Two-year leave for military service; returning September 2026 as a second-year student.

Daejeon, Republic of Korea

• Designed conversational behavior via LLM prompt engineering, with a neighborhood-scale map and intentionally delayed replies.
• Ran contextual interviews, observing and questioning participants as they used the app.
• Observed an unintended user population (women in their thirties) that I could not explain from my data.

• Repositioned across six rounds of redesign, with merchant interviews driving the shift to a B2B service.
• Analyzed logs from 2,013 devices; found a 10-second engagement threshold and a reverse-causal browse–signup relationship.
• Retracted my own initial findings after tracing six reported metrics to measurement artifacts rather than user behavior — background timeouts had inflated median dwell time from 1.5s to 38s — and re-ran the analysis.

• Observed first-time use of facial-recognition payment at 100+ small-business merchants in live retail settings.
• Relayed recurring UX and system-level issues from merchant conversations to the engineering team.
• Raised user-side risks of biometric payment, including the trade-off between convenience and exposure.

• Framed U.S. Forces Korea as a bridgehead population for testing a Korean fintech's entry into the U.S. market.
• Recruited participants individually, including the executive officer and unit commander; ran ~30-minute semi-structured interviews, recorded, transcribed, and coded.
• Conducted AS-IS / TO-BE analysis and fake-door tests, concluding that transit-card payment was the viable entry point.

• Surveyed tactile paving in my district (40% damaged or non-standard) and proposed a vibration-feedback aid; concept stage only.

• Designed and budgeted a three-day accelerator program for Seoul-area student founders, incorporating AI tooling into the curriculum; presented the proposal to university leadership and venture investors.

• Interpreted for Korean commanders in tactical command settings within a U.S. Army unit.
• Served as interpreter for the Oman delegation at the World Military Taekwondo Championship.