Lab News

New research grant on brain foundation model

Our consortium was awarded a new five-year grant, beginning in April 2026, from the National Research Foundation (NRF), funded by the Korean government’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT).

K-NeuroMind NEXUS 뇌인지정서 차세대 교차모달 파운데이션 모델 플랫폼

(K-NeuroMind NEXUS: Neurocognitive-Affective Next Generation Cross-Modal Foundation Model)

Our BBMI project was featured on the KBS television program The Secret of Birth, Aging, Illness, and Death.

Our BBMI project was featured on the KBS program, “The Secret of Birth, Aging, Illness, and Death”, Meditation: Exercise for the Mind.

KBS 생로병사의 비밀: 마음의 운동 명상

New research grant on Brain-Inspired AI

Our consortium was awarded a new four-year grant, beginning in April 2026, from the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP), funded by the Korean government’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT).

Subproject (2): Development of AI learning technologies based on neuroscience, cognitive science, and biological learning principles

세부 (2) 뇌 인지과학과 생물학적 학습 원리에 기반한 인공지능 학습 기술 개발

BESK 2026 Brain and Artificial Intelligence Symposium

We attended the Brain and Artificial Intelligence Symposium of Brain Engineering Society of Korea (BESK), Febuary 04~06, Welli Hilli Park, Hoengseong-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea.

Jihun Kim was invited as oral presenter and received an award!
“CausaLM: Causal Language Modeling from Human Brain Activity”, Jihun Kim, Sung Hwan Lee, Chae Lynn Kim, Ji Yun Park, Jong-Hwan Lee

Sunghwan Lee also received an poster award!
“Multimodal Contrastive Pretraining for Prefix-Conditioned fMRI-to-Caption Decoding: Performance and Neural-Reliance Diagnostics”, Sung Hwan Lee, Jihun Kim, Chae Lynn Kim, Ji Yun Park, Jong-Hwan Lee

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Many congratulations!!!

We presented our work at the poster session of the workshop!

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Kickoff meeting of Neural Reinforcement Learning (NRL) grant

We had a midterm gathering in the 3rd year for our BRL grant on rtfMRI-NRL.

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Scholarship Award from NRF for Sunghwan Lee

Sunghwan awarded the scholarship for graduate study proposal from National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea.

Many congratulations!!

2025 BESK Summer Workshop

We attended the Summer Workshop of Brain Engineering Society of Korea (BESK), July 10~July 12, Jeju Sun Hotel, Jeju, Korea.

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We presented our work at the poster session!

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Jihun Kim was invited as oral presenters at BESK 2025, and he also received an award!
“Optimal Reward Shaping for Neurofeedback : Human-like Approach”, Jihun Kim, Jong-Hwan Lee

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Many congratulations!!!

We had fun together :)

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[Paper acceptance] Jeon et al., Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2025

Our work, “Abnormal association between neural activity and genetic expressions of impulsivity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: an Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study,” was accepted in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging! Many congratulations!!

Abnormal association between neural activity and genetic expressions of impulsivity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: an Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study

Farewell of Juhyeon

Everyone had delicious pork for lab dinner to celebrate Juhyeon’s graduation!

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We wish you the best of luck in the future! Congratulations on your graduation, Juhyeon!

Teacher's Day

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We all had a delicious dinner together to celebrate Teacher’s Day. Thank you, Professor!