Jooyoung Seo
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJooyoung Seo is an Assistant Professor and learning scientist with a decade of experience at the intersection of accessibility, educational technology, and software engineering. Her PhD work (ABD) in Learning, Design, and Technology and extensive research at Penn State focus on inclusive makerspaces, accessible STEM learning, and computational thinking for learners with disabilities, blending ethnography with NLP and data science. She builds practical tools—such as the accessible RMarkdown web app (AROW) and the tactileR R package—and has hands-on engineering experience improving accessibility in widely used open-source projects like RStudio and the popular gt table package. As an officially certified accessibility professional, she combines classroom and community-facing teaching with technical leadership, from training accessibility teams to cofounding an assistive-tech startup. Based in Champaign, IL, she is known for turning rigorous research into usable artifacts that widen participation in computing for underrepresented learners.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D., Learning, Design, and Technology, Ph. D., Learning, Design, and Technology at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General at Sungkyunkwan University
English, Korean
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
accessibility10
r10
docx5
latex4
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/gt
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jooyoung primarily focused on improving the HTML rendering capabilities of the `gt` package, which generates publication-quality tables from R. They refactored the HTML generation code by replacing `th` tags with `td` tags in the table structure. Additionally, they added the `scope` attribute to headers for improved accessibility and refined the semantics of row groups and column groups. These changes enhance the accessibility and structure of the tables generated by `gt`.
docxquartosummary-tableslatexquality
jooyoungseo/tactileR
Jun 2017 - Oct 2023
R package for creating tactile graphics for users with visual impairments.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 6 years 5 months
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