Professor
Seungwoo Lee
- Brain-Computer Interface
- Neural Prosthetics
- Visual Prosthesis
- Cochlear Implant
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Implantable/Wearable Medical Device
- Electric/Magnetic Neural Stimulation
- Microelectrode/Microcoil
- Neuro-Cognitive Disorder Treatment/Rehabilitation
- Computational Modeling of Electric/Magnetic Stimulation
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Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Seoul National University (2010)
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Location
W13, 508
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Laboratory
Brain Interfaces and Neural Prosthetics Laboratory
Biosketch
- Seung Woo Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at KAIST. He received the B.S. degree in School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea, in 2003. He received the Ph.D. degree in the EECS from the SNU (Advisor: Prof. Sung June Kim), in 2010. He trained as a Research Fellow from 2011 to 2015 in Dr. Fried lab in Department of Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Prior to joining KAIST in 2023, he was an Instructor in Neurosurgery (2015-2018) and an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery (2018-2023) at the MGH and Harvard Medical School.
- Dr. Lee has extensive experience in neural prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces, retinal implants, cochlear implants, deep brain stimulation, and electrical engineering. His research interests include development of implantable & wearable electronic medical devices (BioMEMs and Bioelectronics) as well as effective electric/magnetic neural stimulation & recording strategy (Neurophysiology) for neuroscience research and neural prosthesis. He is the recipient of a National Eye Institute R01 research funding (USA), and a Department of Defense (DoD) - Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) - Vision Research Program (VRP) funding (USA).
Key Papers
- Lee SW, Fallegger F, Casse BDF, Fried SI. Implantable microcoils for intracortical magnetic stimulation. Science Advances, Vol. 2, no. 12, e1600889, Dec. 9. 2016.
- Bonmassar G*, Lee SW*, Freeman DK, Polasek M, Fried SI, Gale JT. Microscopic Magnetic Stimulation of Neural Tissue. Nature Communications, 3, article no. 921, Jun. 26. 2012.
- Lee SW*, Thyagarajan K, Fried SI. Micro-coil design influences the spatial extent of responses to intracortical magnetic stimulation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 1680-1694, Jun. 2019.
- Lee SW*. Selective activation of cortical columns using multichannel magnetic stimulation with a bent flat microwire array. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 2164-2175, Jul. 2021.
- Ryu SB, Paulk AC, Yang JC, Ganji M, Dayeh SA, Cash SS, Fried SI, Lee SW*. Spatially confined responses of mouse visual cortex to intracortical magnetic stimulation from micro-coils. Journal of Neural Engineering, Vol. 17, no. 5, Article 056036, Oct. 21. 2020.
- Lee SW*, Fried SI. Micro-magnetic stimulation of primary visual cortex induces focal and sustained activation of secondary visual cortex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Vol. 380, Issue. 2228, Jul. 25. 2022.
Courses
- Modern Brain-Computer Interface
- Methods in Brain and Cognitive Sciences