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Team Members

Meet the team

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Chloe Koo is an Designer/Educator who is based in New York. As a designer, she desires to design things that are emotionally rich and grounded in meaning. She loves to devise new designs that involve both new technologies and innovations.

Chloe Koo, MFA

Education Director
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Gabriel’s role at HugMatch is to build investor relations and manage all external communications as the head of PA & PM. His greatest desire is to see HugMatch touch the lives of children worldwide and change perceptions on the words ‘disability’ and ‘handicap.’ To him, these words mean brilliant, special, and unique.

Gabriel Lee, MA

Project Manager
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Hanah Choi is a User Experience Design leader who brings over a decade of experience in the field. Guided by her passion and craft, she is a strong advocate for user needs.

Hanah Choi, MA

Lead UX Designer
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Hyoung bin is a New York City-based composer and arranger for film and multimedia. He composes for all styles of music ranging from epic orchestral music to electronic pop music. He completed his Master’s degree in composition with a concentration in scoring for film and multimedia at New York University.

Hyoungbin Kim, MM

Lead Composer
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Jane is a composer for film, multimedia, and musical theatre. With her musical background in various genres such as classical, jazz, and gospel music, she creates scores that are unique but suitable for the picture. Her musicals have been selected by various festivals in New York and she continues to collaborate with lyricists and book writers as a member of BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

Jane Lee, MM

Composer
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Eunice Ryoo has a background in Academia/Research for she has always enjoyed learning. Now as a mother of three young children, she has been learning about more effective ways of presenting stories and information for teaching younger children through public/private early childhood programs.

Eunice Ryoo, MS

Content Specialist
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While working in the fashion industry, Deborah is studying UI/UX design with a fully committed interest. Deborah’s vision is to help the world solve problems and help the users of products and technology discover happiness in their experiences. She sees the designs in HugMatch as the hope, change, and innovation for children.

Deborah Yun, BA

UI/UX Designer
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Viviane is a “slasher.” She hosts multiple positions including graphic designer, lecturer, and researcher. She trusts that design has magical power to make the world a wonderful place; thus, she hopes that HugMatch will create magical experience for childrens with disabilities.

Kyulee Viviane Kim, Phd

Lead Researcher
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Sungmin Kim is a New York City-based sound designer and creative director. After majoring in film scoring at Berklee College of Music and receiving a master's degree in Intermedia Music Technology from the University of Oregon, he performs sound design, composition, and creative work based on his musical background. He is never afraid to challenge new areas.

Sungmin Kim, MM

Lead Sound Designer
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David is a devoted engineer based in New York. He values thoughtful and creative designs in his work and is passionate about the ideation and implementation of quality digital experiences. He focuses on finding the right balance between user needs and business goals. David aims to find new sounds to make HugMatch more enjoyable for the users.

David Lee, MS

Sound Designer
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Olivia is a current graduate student at Teachers College studying art education. As an aspiring educator and an education specialist at HugMatch, she hopes to learn how visual language can share all kinds of stories and serve as an alternative tool to overcome challenges in language processing, understanding meaning, and emotions.

Olivia Kim, EdM

Education Specialist
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Hyeonwoo is a Unity programmer who likes to play and make games. He hopes games will bring more people together regardless of race, color, or gender. So, he uses the latest technologies to create an even more cool and meaningful HugMatch app.

Hyeonwoo Kim, BA

Unity Developer
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Yuna is a game developer who enjoys learning about game development technology trends. She believes that immersive gaming experiences can bring happiness to many people. So, she hopes to create the HugMatch app, allowing children to enjoy games without any barriers.

Yuna Oh, BA

Unity Developer
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Doyeon is a game developer who likes to experience and make various games. She believes that a good game experience can be an opportunity to expand one's world. To enable every child to have their own special experiences, she hopes the HugMatch app meets the world.

Doyeon Lee, BA

Unity Developer
Contributors
  • Anthony Herman
    Business Advisor
  • Jenny Kim
    Audiobook Narration
  • Duplex Studio
    Motion Design