team

Education

• 2012 – 17 Ph.D. Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
• 2010 – 12 M.S. Cognitive Science, Yonsei University
• 2005 – 10 B.A. Psychology, Yonsei University

Employment

• Aug 2024 Assistant Professor, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2022 – 24 Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
• 2018 – 22 Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of Washington 
• 2017 – 18 Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester

Grants

• 2023 NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (PI)
• 2021 Weill Neurohub Postdoctoral Fellowship ($150,000)
• 2016 Autism Science Foundation, Pre-doctoral Training Fellowship (PI, $25,000)

Awards and Honors

• 2020 Finalist, Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 2016 Cold Spring Harbor Summer Programs – Computational Neuroscience: Vision 
• 2016 Student Travel Award, International Meeting for Autism Research
• 2012 Best Student Talk, Korean Society for Cognitive Science Annual Spring Conference
• 2010 BK21 Participation Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, Korea

Invited Talks

• 2022 Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• 2022 Department of Psychology, University of Washington
• 2018 Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
• 2017 Interdisciplinary Center for Language Science Talk Series, University of Rochester
• 2017 Department of Psychology, University of Washington
• 2017 Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
• 2015 Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine
• 2015 Brain and Cognitive Sciences Lunch Talk, University of Rochester 
• 2015 Brain and Cognitive Sciences Lunch Talk, University of Rochester 
• 2012 Yonsei Cognitive Science Seminar, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 

Teaching Experience 

• 2015 Instructor, BCS 151 Perception and Action, University of Rochester
• 2014 Guest Lecturer, BCS 153 Cognition, University of Rochester
• 2014 Teaching Assistant, BCS 110 Neural Foundations of Behavior, University of Rochester
• 2014 Teaching Assistant, BCS 153 Cognition, University of Rochester
• 2010 Teaching Assistant, COG 3101 Introduction to Cognitive Science, Yonsei University

Mentoring Experience 

• Graduate Students (University of Washington)
  • 2022       Kelly Chang
  • 2018 – 2019  Jasmine Awad
• Center for Visual Science Summer Undergraduate Internship (University of Rochester)
  • 2017 Sholei Croom
  • 2016 Laura Bedalov
• Research Assistants (University of Rochester and University of Washington)
  • 2020 – 2021  Priyanka Kotipalli, Rachel Tang, Feiyi Wang 
  • 2019             Miaoran Li, Wesley Ganz, Jackson Watson
  • 2017 – 2019   Shuyi Penny Chen
  • 2016 – 2017   Alice Ban, Kabir Al-tariq
  • 2015 – 2017   Zachary Arnold
  • 2015 – 2016   Jared Band  

Mentee Awards and Honors

• 2021 Feiyi Wang: Mary Gates Research Scholarship (University of Washington)
• 2019 Shuyi Penny Chen: Catherine Block Memorial Fund Prize (University of Rochester)
• 2018 Shuyi Penny Chen: Walt and Bobbi Makous Prize (University of Rochester)

Memberships and Professional Service

• Memberships (past and present)
  • Vision Sciences Society / Organization for Human Brain Mapping / Society for Neuroscience / International Society for Autism Research / The Korean Society for Cognitive Science
• Departmental Service
  • 2017        Co-organizer of undergraduate research development workshop, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester
  • 2016        Student co-organizer of CVS symposium “Future of Attention” student journal club, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester
  • 2015 – 16 Student co-chair of graduate student recruitment, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
• Community Service
  • 2018        Curational consultant, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (Media: UR News, Observer)
  • 2013 – 15 Rochester Museum & Science Center, Sciences Saturdays, Rochester, NY
  • 2013        Presentation at Teen Leaders Program, City of Rochester, Rochester, NY

current collaborators and mentees