Research Area

COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHIATRY 

- To develop behavior tests for diagnosing mental disorders using computational models of cognitive functions

- To provide cognition/behavior assessments in on-line IT platforms for u-healthcare service

- To utilize bio-sensor data and personal lifestyle information using mobile and wearable devices

NEUROIMAGE BIG-DATA ANALYSIS

- To analyze brain networks of mental disorder patients using large-scale neuroimage database 

- To utilize machine learning algorithms for extracting features of mental disorder patients in neuroimage big-data

- To designate the personalized treatment target for an individual using the patient's neuroimage data

BRAIN STIMULATION TREATMENT

- To develop non-invasive brain stimulation treatments (e.g. TMS, tDCS) optimized for an individual's brain network

- Online monitoring of the brain networks and functions in the neuromodulation treatments

Professional Career

2019. 12 ~ present : Assistant professor, School of Biomedical Convergence Engineering, Pusan National University, Korea

2016. 10 ~ 2019. 10 : Research fellow, Dept. of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (PI: Young R. Kim)

                       Research fellow, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

2016. 3 ~ 2016. 10 : Research Associate, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea (PI: Hyungjoon Cho)

2014. 5 ~ 2015. 12 : Research Associate, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK (PI: Valerie Voon, M.D.)

Education

2014. 2 : Ph.D. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea (Advisor: Jaeseung Jeong, Ph.D.)

2008. 2 : M.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea (Advisor: Jaeseung Jeong, Ph.D.)

2006. 2 : B.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Honors & Awards

2017. 11 : Best Presentation Award, Korean Society of Human Brain Mapping (KHBM)

2015. 2 : Best Poster Award, The British NeuroPsychiatry Association (BNPA), London, UK

2009. 10 : Research Scholarship for Science & Technology Graduate Student, KOSAF, Korea

2007. 10 : Best Poster Award, Korean NeuroPsychiatric Association (KNPA), Seoul, Korea

2006. 2 : Summa Cum Laude, KAIST