Biosketch

• Anmo J. Kim is a neuroscientist who studies how the brain perceives the external world and decides how to move, using the fruit fly (Drosophila) as a model system. His research spans visual neuroscience, visuomotor integration, whole-brain connectome analysis, and brain-inspired artificial intelligence (NeuroAI).
• Using the visual and flight behavior of the fly, he combines whole-cell electrophysiology and precise behavioral experiments with the recently completed whole-brain connectome, deep learning, and computational modeling to analyze how neural circuits operate. His goal is to uncover how animals perceive objects and decide where to go, and to reverse-engineer intelligence by building virtual agents that see and move as animals do.
• He earned his B.S. from Sungkyunkwan University and M.S. from Seoul National University, and his Ph.D. at Columbia University on information processing in the Drosophila olfactory system. After postdoctoral training at The Rockefeller University (with Gaby Maimon), he was a professor at Hanyang University before joining the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at KAIST in 2026, where he leads his laboratory.
• He has served as Treasurer of the Korean Drosophila Society, a member of the academic committee of the Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences, and on the editorial board of Molecules and Cells. His work has appeared in Cell, Nature Neuroscience, and Current Biology, and he received the TJ Park Young Professor Fellowship (2018).