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. PhD Biological Sciences (incoming)

    University of California San Diego (UCSD)
  2. 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