About
I am a first-year M.S. student in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University and a research assistant in Frank Guenther’s Speech Neuroscience Lab, which studies how the brain controls speech. Previously, I gained hands-on wet-lab experience at the Korea Brain Research Institute, from immunohistochemistry to patch-clamp electrophysiology, studying emotion-related circuits in the mouse brain.
Outside the lab, I enjoy Kaggle competitions, soccer, and basketball.
Education
- 2026 – now
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering
Boston University · Boston, MA - 2025 – 2026
Academic English Program
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX - 2020 – 2025
B.Eng. in Computer Engineering
Daejeon University · Daejeon, Korea
Experience
- 2026 – now
Research Assistant
Speech Neuroscience Lab, Boston University · Boston, MA - 2025
Software Engineer Intern
S-LAB · Seoul, Korea - 2025
Research Intern
Korea Brain Research Institute (KBRI) · Daegu, Korea - 2023 – 2025
Undergraduate Research Assistant
AIONE Lab, Daejeon University · Daejeon, Korea
Publications
Honors & Scholarships
- 2026
Dean’s Graduate Scholarship
Boston University College of Engineering. Merit-based tuition scholarship for the M.S. program.
- 2023
Honorable Mention
East-West Life Science Research Institute, Daejeon University.
- 2020 – 2024
Tuition Scholarship
Daejeon University. Top academic performance in Computer Engineering.
Competitions
- 2026
Top 1% · Kaggle Predicting Smartphone Addiction
Ensembled gradient boosting models (XGBoost, LightGBM) on behavioral tabular data.
- 2026
6th Place · Kaggle MuseumSCAT Challenge (CVNH @ ECCV 2026)
OCR and deep learning pipelines for transcribing museum specimen labels.
- 2026
Top 13% · Kaggle NeuroGolf Championship
Compute-efficient ONNX networks for ARC-AGI visual reasoning.
- 2024
Excellence Prize · AWS DeepRacer Hackathon
Deep reinforcement learning for autonomous racing.
- 2023
9th Place · AI CONNECT Biohealth Data Competition
Predicting nerve injury risk from panoramic dental radiographs.