Experience

  1. Cognitive Intelligence Lab

    Research Associate

    • Advisor: Prof. Se-Bum Paik

    • Study of early visualpathway’s functional role using deep neural network (DNN)

    • Examine whether inherent receptive fields enable general object recognition

    • Incorporated Gabor filters in the first layer of DNN to model biological brains

    • Showed our model recognizes objects under dynamic domain shifts through shape-biased feature encoding

  2. Brain and Machine Intelligence Lab

    Undergraduate Research Intern

    • Advisor: Prof. Sang Wan Lee

    • Study of human model-based (MB) reinforcement learning system using fMRI

    • Examine whether MB system would also use temporal difference to estimate drifting rewards and generate reward prediction error (MB-RPE)

    • Designed foraging tasks, conducted human behavior experiments

    • Analyzed fMRI data, found significant MB-RPE signals from prefrontal cortex

  3. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

    Undergraduate Research Intern

    • Advisor: Prof. Sang Ah Lee

    • Study of prefrontal cortex subregions’ temporal dynamics duringworkingmemory using fNIRS

    • Designed working memory task, conducted human behavior experiments

    • Constructed novel MATLAB-based preprocessing toolbox for fNIRS data

    • Devised new method for accessing decoding performance over time

Education

  1. BS Bio and Brain Engineering

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

    GPA: 3.97 / 4.3 (Major GPA : 4.11 / 4.3)

    Courses include:

    • Statistics / Linear algebra
    • Biomedical statistics & Statistical learning
    • Computational neuroscience
    • Brain-inspired machine intelligence
    • Bio-signal processing / System modeling / Biomedical imaging
Awards
Poster Presentation Award (2024 KSBNS)
∙ October 2024

I received the Outstanding Poster Award from the 2024 Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences (KSBNS)!

The award was given to the top 10% of poster presentations.

Best Presentation Award (2020 KSCBP)
∙ August 2020

I received the Best Presentation Award from the 2020 Korean Society for Cognitive & Biological Psychology (KSCBP)!

The Poster presentation was substituted to recoreded-video due to COVID-19

Skills
Softwares
MATLAB
Python
LaTex
Others
Network simulation
Neural data analysis
Behavioral modeling