Sang Ah Lee

 

Full Professor
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Seoul National University

✉ sangahlee@snu.ac.kr
Positions Held
2026 –Full Professor
2021 – 2025Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University
2020 – 2021Associate Professor, Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
2017 – 2020Assistant Professor, Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
2015 – 2017Visiting Research Associate, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
2013 – 2017Assistant Professor, Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory, CIMeC, University of Trento
2010 – 2013Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento
2010 – 2013Visiting Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
2009 – 2010Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Education
2006 – 2009 PhD in Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
MA in Psychology, 2006
1998 – 2002 B.S. in Astronomy (with Honors), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Awards and Distinctions
2018World Economic Forum’s Young Scientists of 2018
2018Teaching Award, Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
2013 – 2015Research Fellowship, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Trento
2012Best Poster Award, Workshop on Cognitive Modules & Interfaces (in honor of Noam Chomsky), SISSA, Trieste
2010Invited Young Researcher, 24th International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Paris
2010Poster Prize, Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution
2009Poster Prize, Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution
2008 – 2009Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University
2008Research Fellowship, Norman H. Anderson Fund, Harvard University
2004 – 2007National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship for Graduate Student Research
2005Stimson Fund Grant, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
2003 – 2004Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship
2000Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, California Institute of Technology
1998Summer Research Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, CA
Courses Taught at Seoul National University
Spring
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroscience-based Cognitive Modulation: Digital Therapy
Selected Topics Seminar 1: Knowledge
Hippocampal Memory Systems
Fall
Principles of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Practical Skills for Brain and Cognitive Scientists
Artificial and Natural Intelligence
Advanced Topics Seminar 3: How the Mind Works