Lab News

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!

Paper acceptance: Hwang et al., Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2025

Our work, “Transfer Learning of Deep Neural Networks Pretrained using the ABCD Dataset for General Psychopathology Prediction in Korean Adolescents ,” was accepted in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging! Many congratulations!!

Transfer Learning of Deep Neural Networks Pretrained using the ABCD Dataset for General Psychopathology Prediction in Korean Adolescents

Top Viewed Article: Lee and Lee, Human Brain Mapping

Our work, “Discovering individual fingerprints in resting-state functional connectivity using deep neural networks,” was recognized as Top Viewed Article among work published in Human Brain Mapping by WILEY. Many congrats, Dr. Juhyeon Lee!

Discovering individual fingerprints in resting-state functional connectivity using deep neural networks

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Kickoff meeting of Neural Reinforcement Learning (NRL) grant

We had a kickoff meeting of the 3rd year for our BRL grant on NRL.

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