Our ultimate goal is to build AI-enabled models and develop their applications in real-world scenarios using brain signals.

To this end, our main research themes include the investigation of brain functions measured by various neuroimaging modalities such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), biosignals, and a variety of information and data using AI models along with signal processing and machine learning techniques. We believe our findings will be gainfully applied to develop essential applications in various domains.

How can we build such AI-enabled models for brain signals and apply the models in real-world scenarios?

What would be the most feasible applications for us to focus on?

If you want to join BSPL, please send your bio/personal statement and/or CV to PI.

BSPL 연구실에서는 이러한 연구들에 관심있는 석사, 석-박통합, 박사과정 학생 및 연구원을 모집하고 있습니다. 관심있는 분은 간단한 자기소개와 CV 등을 이메일로 보내주시고, 추가적으로 궁금한 사항을 문의하기 위한 면담을 요청해 주시기 바랍니다.

• Lab dinner and Farewell of Jundong and Soohyun (March 4, 2024)
• Assistant Professor Appointment for our alumnus, Hojin Jang (March 1, 2024)
• BESK 2024 Brain and AI Symposium: Awards and having some fun! (Feb. 28, 2024)
• BCI 2024 conference participation and poster/oral presentations! (Feb. 26, 2024)
• Best paper award from Korea University for Juhyeon! (Feb. 23, 2024)
• Our work, “Use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify cortical loci for lower limb movements and their efficacy for individuals after stroke,” was accepted in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation! (Jan. 29, 2024)
• Dr. Kim, Junghoe was appointed as a director at Samsung R&D Institute Russia! (Dec. 7, 2023)
• Our work, “Discovering Individual Fingerprints in Resting-State Functional Connectivity using Deep Neural Networks” was accepted in Human Brain Mapping! (Nov. 28, 2023)
• KHBM 2023 Oral Presentations for Juhyeon, Changha, and SooHyun, and Best Poster Award for Sangsoo! (Oct. 27, 2023)
• Invited Seminar: Dr. Dong-Youl Kim, real-time fMRI-based neurofeedback using machine learning technique (Sep. 8, 2023)
• We attended an annual meeting of Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Montreal, Canada (July 22-26, 2023)
• We awarded a Basic Research Laboratory (BRL) grant on the developement of real-time fMRI-based neural reinforcement learning technique! (June 27, 2023)
• We attended a summer workshop of Brain Engineering Society of Korea (BESK) 2023, and awarded two Best Poster Awards!! (June 21-23, 2023)
• Our work, “Autoencoder and restricted Boltzmann machine for transfer learning in functional magnetic resonance imaging task classification” was accepted in Heliyon! Many congratulations!! (July 6, 2023)
• Our work, “Reliability of self-reported dispositional mindfulness scales and their association with working memory performance and functional connectivity” was accepted in Brain and Cognition! Many congratulations!! (May 17, 2023)
• Our study using Photographer paradigm was invited as an oral presentation at OHBM 2023!! (Apr. 23, 2023)
• Graduation of Minseok and Yeji. Many congrats!! (Feb. 24, 2023)
• We attended the BESK 2023 winter workshop! (Feb. 16-17)
• Our work, “General Psychopathology Factor (p-factor) Prediction Using Resting-State Functional Connectivity and a Scanner-Generalization Neural Network” was accepted to Journal of Psychiatric Research! Many congratulations!! (Dec. 21, 2022)
• Our work, “Neural representations of the perception of handwritten digits and visual objects from a convolutional neural network compared to humans” was accepted to Human Brain Mapping! Many congratulations!! (Dec. 12, 2022)
• Jundong was invited an oral presentation at KHBM 2022! Many congratulations!! (Nov. 11, 2022)
• Dr. Kim, HC’s new publication: Systematic evaluation of recursive approach of EEG-segment-based PCA for removal of helium-pump artifact from MRI
• Dr. Kim, DY’s new publication: Electronic cigarette vaping did not enhance the neural process of working memory for regular cigarette smokers
• Dr. Kim, HC’s new publication: Spectral dynamic causal modeling of mindfulness, mind-wandering, and resting-state in the triple network using fMRI
• Jinwoo received a Poster Award at KHBM 2021! Many congratulations!!
• Sungman’s new publication: Mixed-effects multilevel analysis followed by canonical correlation analysis is an effective fMRI tool for the investigation of idiosyncrasies
• Heeyung’s new publication: Acoustic simulation for transcranial focused ultrasound using GAN-based synthetic CT
• We awarded a new research grant on Imaging-Genetics!
• Dr. Kim awarded a post-doctoral fellowship! Many congrats!!
• We have recently gone through two weeks of the BSPL seminar series! Please check out in the Lab News tab including this (Feb. 27, 2021)
• Dong-Youl’s paper on real-time fMRI neurofeedback for cigarette craving has been accepted in NeuroReport! Many Congratulations!! (Feb. 16, 2021)
• Dong-Youl successfully defended his doctoral thesis on real-time fMRI neurofeedback! Many Congratulations, Dr. Kim!! (Dec. 08, 2020)
• Our paper, “fMRI volume classification using a 3D convolutional neural network robust to shifted and scaled neuronal activations” (Vu, Kim, Jung, Lee) has been accepted in NeuroImage! Many Congrats!!
• Minyoung Jung’s poster, “Investigation of image and sound processing of the human brain using multisensory stimuli” (Jung MY, Lee WW, Niv Lustig, Choi MS, Lee JH) has received public attention in closing ceremony of OHBM 2020! Many Congrats!
• Our paper, “fMRI multivoxel pattern analysis reveals neuronal substrates for collaboration and competition with myopic and predictive strategic reasoning” (Kim DY, Jung E, Zhang J, Lee SY, Lee JH) has been accepted in Human Brain Mapping. Many Congrats!
• Our collaborative paper, “Can we predict real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success from pre-training brain activity?” has been accepted in Human Brain Mapping. Many Congrats!
• Our paper on eye-tracking based naturalistic viewing method (HC Kim, S Jin, S Jo, JH Lee) has been accepted in NeuroImage. Many Congrats!
• We have successfully hosted the 3-day AFNI Bootcamp in Korea University (Nov. 22-24, 2019)!
• Our collaborative work on rt-fMRI-NF has been accepted in F1000 Research. Many Congrats!
• Our collaborative work on rt-fMRI-NF has been accepted in J. Affective Disorder. Many Congrats!
• Hyun-Chul and Hojin’s paper on deep belief networks for rfMRI data has been accepted in J. Neurosci. Methods. Many Congrats!
• Dong-Youl received the Best Poster paper award at Future Healthy Aging and Restoring Biomechanics 2019, Many Congrats!
• Dr. Kim departs a new journey as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. Many Congrats and wish him a good luck!
• Hyun-Chul’s paper on real-time fMRI using mediation analysis has been accepted in NeuroImage. Many Congrats!
• Niv received the Best Poster paper award at the Brain Engineering Society of Korea (BESK) Winter symposium 2019, Many Congrats!
• We have started a joint project with HMC as the A& I NVH Lab!

• OHBM 2024, Seoul, Korea, June 23-27, 2024
• rtFIN 2024, Heidelberg, Germany, November 3 – 6, 2024

BSPL, Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Colleage of Informatics, Korea University