Professor

2026 – Full Professor
2021-2025 Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University
2020-2021 Associate Professor, Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
2017-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
2015-2017 Visiting Research Associate, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
2013-2017 Assistant Professor, Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento
2010-2013 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento
2010-2013 Visiting Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
2009-2010 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Education

Harvard University – Cambridge, MA
PhD in Psychology June 2009
MA in Psychology June 2006
California Institute of Technology – Pasadena, CA
B.S. in Astronomy (with Honors) June 2002

Awards and Distinctions

2018 World Economic Forum’s Young Scientists of 2018
2018 Teaching Award, Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
2013–5 Research Fellowship, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
2012 Best Poster Award, Workshop on Cognitive Modules & Interfaces, held in honor of Noam Chomsky, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
2010 Invited Young Researcher, 24th International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Paris, France
2010 Poster Prize, Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution, Rovereto, Italy
2009 Poster Prize, Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution, Rovereto, Italy
2008–9 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University
2008 Research Fellowship, Norman H. Anderson Fund, Harvard University
2004–7 National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship for Graduate Student Research
2005 Stimson Fund Grant, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
2003–4 Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship
2000 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, California Institute of Technology
1998 Summer Research Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, CA