Education and Employment

Mar, 2024 -                                Professor                                                            Chungnam National University

Mar, 2020- Feb, 2024         Associate professor                                     Chungnam National University

Mar, 2016 - Feb, 2020         Assistant professor                                     Chungnam National University

Mar, 2014 - Feb, 2016          Postdoc & Research professor              ChungBuk National University

Jun, 2013 - Dec, 2013          Postdoc scholar                                               Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S.

Aug, 2007 - May, 2013       Ph.D. in Psychology                                       Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S.  

Mar, 2005 - Feb, 2007       M.A. in Psychology                                         Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Jul, 2001 - Sep, 2003          Military service                                                United Nations Command - Joint Security Area  

Mar, 1999- Feb, 2005         B.A. in Literature and Psychology         Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Publications

see here

Grants & Awards 

2024. 06 ~ 2027. 05    Attentional control under serial and parallel search. National Research Foundation & Ministry of Education of Republic of Korea (P. I., 73,536,000 KRW)

2022. 06 ~ 2025. 02    Serial and parallel processes in human information processing. National Research Foundation & Ministry of Science and ICT of Republic of Korea (P. I., 150,000,000 KRW)

2019. 06 ~ 2022. 02    Investigation of functional relationship between empathy, cognitive control and smartphone addiction. National Research Foundation & Ministry of Science and ICT of Republic of Korea (P. I., 137,500,000 KRW)

2017. 05 ~ 2019. 04    Top-down dependence of bottom-up attention. National Research Foundation & Ministry of Education of Republic of Korea (P. I., 40,000,000 KRW)

2017. 03 ~ 2019. 02    Macroscopic neural model of human information processing. National Research Foundation & Ministry of Science and ICT of Republic of Korea (P. I., 60,000,000 KRW)

2017. 01 ~ 2018. 12    Development of an integrative platform for prevention and treatment of internet/smartphone addiction disorder. Korea Research Institute of Chemistry (P. I., 50,000,000 KRW)

2016. 11 ~ 2017. 10    Working memory-driven attention in real-world search. National Research Foundation & Ministry of Education of Republic of Korea (P. I., 10,000,000 KRW)

2015    Commendation for excellence in research and education from the vice-premier of the Republic of Korea 

2012    American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award

2012    Summer Research Award, College of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt University

Reviewer

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Brain Research, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition & Emotion, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance,  Journal of Neuroscience, Memory & Cognition,PLOS One, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Visual Cognition

Techniques & Skills  

Psychopy, Pymvpa, FSL, Brainvoyager

MATLAB & PsychToolbox 3,

Keynote, MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint

R package, Adobe Illustrator