Eun-Seo Cho (조은서) Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher
Neuro-Instrumentation & Computational Analysis Lab (NICA Lab), KAIST
E-mail: eunseo.cho at kaist.ac.kr
Postdoctoral researcher
Neuro-Instrumentation & Computational Analysis Lab (NICA Lab), KAIST
E-mail: eunseo.cho at kaist.ac.kr
Eun-Seo Cho (Pronounced as: Un-So Cho) is a postdoctoral researcher in Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is currently developing novel optical imaging systems in Neuro-Instrumentation and Computational Analysis Lab (NICA Lab). His research focuses on capturing neural activity across the entire brain with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.
Neurophotonics
Disease Models & Mechanisms (2025), JoVE (2023), Optics Express (2021)
Computational Imaging
PhotoniX (2026), Advanced Photonics Research (2024), Medical Image Analysis (2022), MICCAI (2021)
Biomedical Image Processing
Cell Reports Methods (2025), ACS Nano (2025), Nature Methods (2023), WACV (2023), MICCAI (2021), Scientific Reports (2018)
# Voltage imaging # Calcium imaging # Functional connectomics # Understanding neural circuits
# Computational tools for microscopy images
KAIST
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Thesis: Self-calibrating Sensorless Adaptive Optical Microscopy
Advisor: Prof. Young-Gyu Yoon
2021.03 - 2025.08
KAIST
M.S. in Electrical Engineering
Thesis: Sparse Decomposition Deconvolution Microscopy for High-speed 3-D Imaging of Neuronal Activity
Advisor: Prof. Young-Gyu Yoon
2019.02 - 2021.02
Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude)
2015.03 - 2018.08
Postdoctoral Researcher
Neuro-Instrumentation & Computational Analysis Lab (NICA Lab), KAIST
2025.09 - Present
Research Assistant
Neuro-Instrumentation & Computational Analysis Lab (NICA Lab), KAIST
2019.02 - 2025.08
Undergraduate Intern
Computational Neuroimage Analysis Lab (CNA Lab), Hanyang University
2017.03 - 2017.12
Visiting Student
Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Center(CCNC), Seoul National University
2017.01 - 2017.02
Best Poster Award, SPIE Advanced Biophotonics Conference (ABC), 2025
Government-sponsored scholar (Graduate scholarship), 2019 - 2025
Hanyang University Graduate Award (Summa Cum Laude), 2018
Hanyang University Alumni Association President Award, 2018
Hanyang University Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design Award (3rd Prize), 2017
Hanyang University Social Services Award, 2017
Hanyang University Department of Biomedical Engineering Fund Scholarship, 2017
Joongdong High School Honorary Teachers Certificate of Appreciation, 2016, 2017
Hanyang-Brain Scholarship (Scholarship of Academic Achievement), 2015 - 2017
(Semester: 2015 Fall, 2016 Spring, 2017 Spring)
Address
LG Innovation Hall(N24), Room #4103, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea