Rina Kim

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Product Designer, UX/UI Design · · Systems Thinking

Masters in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. Previously at BMW Group Technology Office. Specializing in Automotive HMI, Interface Design, and Rapid Prototyping that bridge research and production.

Selected Projects

Three I’d want to talk through. Each one opens up in full below.

01BMW Group

2025 Jun – 2026 Jan · UX Engineer Intern

Compose the interface itself from context — driver state, road conditions, route — instead of asking the driver to navigate to what they need.

Outcome

Aligned research, product, and engineering on one set of context-gating rules — what the car surfaces, and when.

  • Automotive HMI
  • Generative UI
02CMU SmaSH Lab

2024 Sep – 2025 Aug · Research Assistant

Classify intent from noisy, real-world speech so the agent acts only when the signal is clear, instead of answering every stray sentence.

Outcome

Over 90% intent-classification accuracy on unscripted speech, in a modular pipeline built to port across hardware.

  • Voice Interfaces
  • ML Research
03CMU × Surefront

2024 Winter – 2025 Summer · MHCI Capstone

Designers duplicated one jacket nineteen times to create it. Merchandisers waited three weeks for data the PLM already held. Both worked around the system meant to hold their work.

Outcome

Team scored 4–5 of 5 on willingness to buy and shipped a design system, engineer-agreed feasibility ratings, and a roadmap through Q4 2026, on research and a prototype I owned.

  • Enterprise UX
  • Product Design

More things I built

21 projects from coursework, hackathons, and independent study. _〆(。╹‿ ╹ 。)

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