Biosketch

• Dr. Se-Bum Paik is a computational neuroscientist studying cognitive functions in the brain. He is an associate professor with tenure in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at KAIST.
• After receiving his B.S and M.S. from Seoul National University, Dr. Paik obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley where he worked with Prof. Donald A. Glaser. After graduating, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Dario L. Ringach in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles as a postdoctoral researcher.
• Dr. Paik joined the KAIST faculty in 2013 and heads the Cognitive Intelligence Laboratory. He was awarded tenure in 2021 and was endowed with the KAIST singularity professorship (2021-2031).
• Dr. Paik’s research addresses the origin and development of cognitive intelligence in both biological and artificial neural networks using tools from theoretical neuroscience, computational simulations, experimental psychophysics, and artificial intelligence. His research has focused on finding mechanisms that explain how the functional architecture of the sensory system is initially created to generate the building blocks of cognitive functions. He is interested in the biological strategy of the brain to implement efficient cognitive functions, which may lead to a better understanding of the working mechanisms of the brain, as well as the implementation of new artificial network models utilizing biological mechanisms.
• Dr. Paik is the recipient of the POSCO Cheong-Am science fellowship (2013). He served as the research planner of the national research foundation and as an advisory board member of the deep learning community of nVIDIA Korea and the artificial intelligence institute of SNU. Currently, he is on the board of directors of the Society for Computational Neuroscience and the Brain Engineering Society of Korea, and is on the editorial board of Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, and Frontiers in Neuroscience journals.