People

Won Mok Shim

Won Mok received her Ph.D. in Experimental/Cognitive Psychology from Harvard University. She completed postdoctoral training in the Dept. of Psychology at Harvard University and in the Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. From 2010 to 2016, she was an assistant professor in the Dept of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. In 2016, she joined the Dept of Biomedical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, where she is currently an associate professor.
Her research investigates how the human brain represents and processes perceptual and cognitive information—from low-level visual features to high-level context and prediction—and how these representations support adaptive behavior in naturalistic settings. To address these questions, her lab integrates human neuroimaging, behavioral methods, and computational modeling.

Contact: wonmokshim (at) skku.edu

Kyeong-Jin Tark

Kyeong-Jin received B.A. and M.A. from Yonsei University (advisor: Min-Shik Kim) and Ph.D. from New York University (advisor: Clayton Curtis).  Then, as a post-doctoral fellow, she worked with Do-Joon Yi and Min-Shik Kim at Yonsei University. Since she joined our lab, she has investigated the neural representation of ensemble statistics and how moment-to-moment fluctuation in attention modulates neural responses to visual stimuli using fMRI.

• Vision & Attention
• NatPAC

Contact: kj.tark (at) gmail.com

Hun Seok Choi

Hun obtained his Ph.D. in 2019 in Cambridge with his thesis regarding the neurobiology of incremental speech comprehension. The central goal of his research is to establish a better understanding of the complex relationship between human brain dynamics and cognition. His approach employs a variety of methods – examining neural dynamics at the neurophysiological and hemodynamic levels using different computational models.

• Decision Making & Rewards
• NatPAC

Contact: zcjth54 (at) gmail.com

Dasom Kwon

Dasom received his Ph.D. in social computational neuroscience from the PECON lab and completed an MA in psychology from Yonsei University. His research focuses on uncovering the neural and computational mechanisms that underlie social interactions.

• Social Cognition
• Narrative Comprehension & Memory
• NatPAC

Contact: ektha1810 (at) gmail.com

Jiwoong Park

Jiwoong’s research primarily focuses on exploring  computational and cognitive models of goal-directed behavior in naturalistic environments.

• Narrative Comprehension & Memory
• Vision & Attention
• Decision Making & Rewards
• NatPAC

Contact : jiwoongpark (at) skku.edu

Royoung Kim

Royoung is interested in how information, ranging from low-level features to intrinsic values, is encoded in the visual cortex. She loves dogs and cats (essentially all mammals and birds), musicals, and film photography.

• Vision & Attention
• Decision Making & Rewards
• NatPAC

Contact : roespigas (at) gmail.com

Jisu Ro

Prior to joining the lab, Jisu obtained a BS in psychology, neuroscience, and statistics from Ewha Woman’s University. Her research centers on the predictive process of naturalistic social cognition. Outside of the lab, she enjoys playing lacrosse and drawing her dog.

• Social Cognition
• NatPAC

Contact : bona3476 (at) gmail.com

Jaeyoung Jeon

Jaeyoung received a master’s degree Global Biomedical Engineering(GBME) at Sungkyunkwan University. He is primarily interested in decision making and reward representation under 3D naturalistic settings.

• Decision Making & Rewards
• NatPAC

Contact : bluejay94 (at) naver.com

Kwon Heo

Kwon received a bachelor’s degree in Global Biomedical Engineering(GBME) at Sungkyunkwan University. He is interested in neural representations that underlie the natural flow of thoughts.

• Internal Thoughts & Speech
• Social Cognition
• NatPAC

Contact: h1141h (at) gmail.com

Sanghyun Park

Sanghyun received a Master’s degree in Global Biomedical Engineering(GBME) at Sungkyunkwan University. He is interested in neural representation of adaptive decision-making and planning.

• Decision Making & Rewards

Contact: tkdgus1030 (at) gmail.com

Jiun Choi

Jiun received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Sogang university. She is interested in shared neural representation during the reinstatement of a real-world event. She loves music, dessert, and art from diverse cultures.

• Social Cognition

Contact: chloejnchoi (at) gmail.com

ByeongJun Park

ByeongJun received a bachelor’s degree in Global Biomedical Engineering(GBME) at Sungkyunkwan University. He is interested in intrinsic rewards & motives that occur in situations where there is no extrinsic goal. He aims to simply express his findings in a single, ordered formula mathematically. He loves the act of creating: composing music, drawing, making games, and writing.

• Decision Making & Rewards

Contact: sasd9750 (at) skku.edu

Kyubeen Ahn

Kyubeen received a Master’s degree in Brain & Cognition engineering at Korea University (advisor: Sang Hee Kim). She is interested in the cognition process especially related to implicit memory and the relationship between emotion and cognition. She loves movies and discovering new dining spots.

• NatPAC

Contact: ahnkkyuu (at) gmail.com

Seung Eon Jeong

Seungeon received a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Sungkyunkwan University (advisor: Hyein Chang). He is interested in emotions, emotion regulation, and psychopathology in relation to brain function. He enjoys brewing hand-drip coffee and drinking it.

• NatPAC

Contact: jeongseungeon2 (at) gmail.com