💡 Updates
- I moved to Vancouver, Canada!
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I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, working with Dr. Stefanie Blain-Moraes at the BIAPT Lab, supported by the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards (CIRTA).
I completed my Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences and M.S. in Statistics at UC Irvine, where I conducted research in the Auditory & Language Neuroscience Lab with Dr. Gregory Hickok and Dr. Connor Mayer.
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.
My research broadly focuses on the neural control of human movement and on how neural signals can be understood and harnessed to restore or augment motor function through multimodal neuroimaging. Within this broader framework, I have a particular interest in speech motor control, including the cortical mechanisms underlying laryngeal and articulatory control. My work aims to understand how the brain organizes and coordinates complex voluntary movements, and how this knowledge can inform the development of neural interfaces for communication and motor rehabilitation.
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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.