Yongyeon Cho is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Interior Design, College of Design and a faculty member in the Human-Computer Interaction Program at Iowa State University. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Iowa State University in Ames, and the Master of Interior Architecture from Konkuk University and his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Interior Architecture from Soongsil University, both in Seoul, Korea. Since 2018, he is working as a design advisor at Keumkang Enterprises Inc, in Seoul, Korea. In 2017, he was an interior design professional at Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK), Chicago office. He holds WELL Accredited Professional and LEED Green Associate and received an Engineer Architecture certificate in Korea. He was a member of a student winning team for the Healthcare Environment Award, sponsored by Contract magazine and the Center for Healthcare Design in 2016. He was a recipient Masaaki Yamada Juror’s Award of Merit in 2015 and Award of Excellence in 2019 at American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI), and the winner of AAHID (American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers) graduate research fellowship sponsored by Steelcase in 2017. He has been serving as a Creative Scholarship juror for the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) since 2018. His research interests include wellness design research and method, evaluation criteria and assessment tool, graphic communication tools and techniques, bibliographic research, user-centered and human-centered design, and design pedagogy.