💡 Updates
- I will begin a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Stefanie Blain-Moraes at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, starting in September 2026, supported by the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards.
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I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Irvine, conducting research in the Auditory & Language Neuroscience Lab with Dr. Gregory Hickok and Dr. Connor Mayer. I completed my Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences and M.S. in Statistics at UC Irvine.
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 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.
Land Acknowledgment. I respectfully acknowledge that my academic training, research, and teaching have been conducted on the unceded traditional homelands of the Kizh (Gabrieleño), Acjachemen (Juaneño), and Payómkawichum (Luiseño) peoples at UC Irvine, and the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations at UBC Vancouver.