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• 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).