• Clinical neuroscience
• sleep disorder
• anxiety and depression
• sleeping behaviour and memory
• neurocognitive disorder
• sleep cycle

Studying psychology as an undergraduate and having a particular interest in the relationship between sleeping behaviours and memory, I gradually became interested in neurocognitive science. I aim to acquire a higher level of understanding in neurocognitive science at KAIST based on computational methodology, primarily focusing on the relations between brain-damaged disorders, sleeping disorders and treatments. My ultimate target for my research is building an evidence base to contribute to treatment development for brain diseases related to sleeping issues. Specifically, I hope to research topics of understanding how sleeping disorders can cause and contribute to various risks and other brain damage and how the human sleep cycle (circadian rhythm) can affect and be affected by brain damage and neurocognitive disorders.

Majoring in Psychology at McGill University, Jae Bin had the opportunity to create intervention programs for young adults that aimed to improve their mental health and also handle real-life stressors. His current research interest includes resilience and suicide and eventually, Jae Bin hopes to study and develop empirically-supported interventions programs that can help improve the resilience of individuals.

• neural circuit
• consciousness
• ion channel

Studying the brain and how humans think is a major question to all humans. Acknowledging the importance of understanding both biology and engineering to truly understand the brain, I have studied medical biology and engineering in my undergraduate years. Studying ion channels as a protein and the circuit they constitute in the brain, have led me to explore deeper into the consciousness of the mind. My interests include how humans think and process thought, exploring them with computational science and big data, including the biological mechanisms behind it. Moreover, hope to understand the human itself better through interdisciplinary studies including human history, philosophy, and psychology.

• personalized diagnosis
• disease in dish
• developmental disorder
• degenerative disease

Eunjin majored in psychology from Korea University. During that time, she worked as lab assistant in Biopsychology lab, involving in mouse experiment of sleep disorder. Also she assisted the research about autism spectrum disorder in Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences(CNdS) lab. Currently, she interested in personalized diagnosis and treatment system on mental disorder.

• neuroscience
• cognition

She has dreamed on and on of becoming a person who could contribute to the development of society by exploring the brain, the unknown area. She majored in biological science and psychology at Chonnam National University and was able to study the brain from various perspectives. She also decided to grow into a scientist with an interdisciplinary approach while participating in the study of brain disease, brain engineering, and cognitive science through undergraduate research and internships. Recently, she is interested in how learning and memory occur in the brain and she will always do research in the spirit of trying to learn new things through a master's course in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at KAIST.

• iPSC
• AI
• Neurodegenerative diseases
• Perosnalised medicine

The brain, both mysterious and wondrous, presents inevitable impairments that we must conquer. Seung Ju's research focuses on enabling patient-specific, targeted treatments by identifying the subtypes of brain diseases.

• Brain-inspired AI
• Model-based fMRI
• Computational neuroscience
• Memory

I majored in Chemistry and Brain Cognitive Sciences at Korea University. The main reason I decided to study the brain was because of a very vague idea: "Can we model the brain artificially?". This idea got me interested in neuroscience. In particular, I want to develop a model of artificial intelligence that has the same valuation and reward system as humans and has human-like behavior. To realize this, it is also essential to discover what the brain does through the process of proposing an appropriate model and comparing it to the brain. By approaching both the brain and artificial intelligence, I hope to understand the mechanisms of how the brain works and use them to conquer the things that current artificial intelligence cannot.

• Decision neuroscience
• Computational neuroscience
• Reinforcement learning
• Memory

Nayeong acquired her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Electrical Electronic Engineering in Yonsei University. Based on her interest in human cognitive function, she decided to study human intelligence with the aid of brain-inspired AI models. Now, she is an MS student in prof. Sangwan Lee’s Brain and Machine Intelligence Lab. Her research interest is in hippocampal memory-based inference guided by abstract knowledge.

• Memory
• Visual Perception
• Neuronal connectivity
• Neurotransmitter
• Biological approach
• Genetic analysis

Hoyong aims to understand brain network influencing cognition and decision at the level of neuronal connectivity and neurotransmission. Especially, he is interested in Memory and Visual perception. In those topics, his focus of study is which neurons or neurotransmitters have an influence on and how they connected and affect cognitive process. While at the department of brain and cognitive science, Hoyong hopes to deepen his understanding of how neuronal interaction makes high-level brain functions.