I am a postdoctoral fellow working with Robbe Goris at the Center for Perceptual Systems at UT Austin. Before joining his lab, I earned my PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, where I worked with Oh-Sang Kwon.
My research explores how sensory information is encoded in the brain and transformed into perceptions and thoughts that drive behavior. To address this question, I combine psychophysical experiments, computatational models and electrophysiological recordings. I study perceptually-driven behavior in both humans and animals, developing theories that explain computations underlying behavior. In animal models, I also record and perturb extracellular spiking activity of neurons while they perform tasks that require specific neural computations. By integrating behavioral and neural data with normative theories, computational models and artificial neural networks, I aim to uncover how neural activity leads to perception, thought and, ultimately, behavior.