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  • I am currently seeking postdoctoral or research opportunities in neuroscience, with a focus on auditory perception and speech production! I am expecting to finish my PhD in Summer 2025.
Profile Picture of Minkyu Kim: A man with short dark hair, smiling gently, stands outdoors in a black suit with a white shirt, holding a bassoon vertically in front of him. He appears to be a musician posed for a portrait with a clear sky and indistinct buildings in the background.
Minkyu Kim · 김민규 · 金珉圭
The screen printing artwork features a stylized profile of a human head drawn with bold, black outlines and accented with blue and yellow details. The brain area is filled with a pattern of blue wavy lines. To the left of the head, there are abstract yellow and blue shapes that represent international phonetic alphabets coming out from the mouth.
“When You Talk” (2017)
Screen print on paper, 8.5″ × 11″

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of California, Irvine, where I conduct research at the Auditory & Language Neuroscience Lab, under the guidance of Dr. Gregory Hickok. Additionally, I have received a Master’s degree in Statistics during the program.

Before joining UC Irvine, I received dual Bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and Linguistics at Seoul National University. I am also a proud graduate of the Korea Science Academy of KAIST, a science magnet school, located in Busan, South Korea.

The primary objective of my research is to explore the neural control of speech, with a particular emphasis on understanding the functional localization of the pathway that controls the larynx for pitch generation. This investigation aims to shed light on the overarching issue of the functioning of human language from a neuroscience perspective.

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