Dr. Younghee Seo was honored with the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the 11th Annual Symposium of the Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (KSTU).

Dr. Jeongeun Kum was honored with the Outstanding Paper Award at the 11th Annual Symposium of the Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (KSTU).

Dr. Hyungmin Kim was honored with the Outstanding Paper Award at the 66th Conference of the Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering (KOSOMBE).

Kyuheon Lee was honored with the Excellent Poster Award at the 2025 Summer Conference of the Korean Society of Brain Neuromodulation Therapy.

Dr. Hyungmin Kim has been appointed as an Editorial Board Member of the journal Brain Stimulation (Elsevier).

Dr. Hyungmin Kim has been selected as the “KIST Person of the Month” for February 2025

Dr. Younghee Seo was honored with the Excellent Poster Award at the 2025 Winter Conference of the Korean Society of Brain Neuromodulation Therapy.

Kyuheon Lee was honored with the Excellent Paper Award at the Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering 2024. 

• 뇌에 쌓인 노폐물 초음파로 제거한다··· 치매 치료 길 열릴까 (경향신문)

• 뇌척수액 순환 개선하는 ‘집속초음파’, 새로운 치매 치료 가능성 제시 (디지틀조선일보)

• 집속초음파로 치매 치료 ‘최초’ 입증… “뇌순환 촉진, 치료 안정성 확인” (세계일보)

• A closed-loop neurostimulation device that reaches new levels (Nature Electronics News & Views)

• 뇌파 측정해 뇌 질환 치료한다…환자 맞춤형 전자약 기술 (연합뉴스)

• 뇌 표면 밀착 전자패치, 약 안 듣는 뇌질환 치료 (동아사이언스)

• 뇌 표면 밀착하는 전자패치 개발…뇌파 실시간 모니터링 성공 (조선비즈)

Lee/Kum et al.'s paper on ECoG/tFUS-based closed-loop neuromodulation system for epilepsy was accepted for publication in Nature Electronics (Top Rank in ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC, JCR=0.1%, IF=33.7) 

Tae Young Park was honored with the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Asian Pacific Society for Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Surgery 2024 (APFUS 2024). 

Tae Young Park was honored with Academic Excellence Award at the graduation ceremony.

• 집속초음파 AI시뮬레이션 개발…뇌질환 실시간 초음파 치료 가능 (연합뉴스)

• 뇌질환 초음파 치료, 실시간 초점 조정 가능해진다 (동아사이언스)

• Artificial intelligence lowers the barrier to ultrasound brain disease treatment (SCIENMAG)

Park et al.'s paper on real-time acoustic simulation-guided navigation (SGN) using 3D-cGAN was accepted for publication in NeuroImage (Top Rank in NEUROIMAGING, JCR 3.6%) 

Jeungeun Kum & Tae Young Park were honored with the Excellent Presentation Award at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (KSTU). 

Tae Young Park was honored with the Best Presentation Award at the Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science (KSCS). 

Heekyung Koh and Tae Young Park were honored with Academic Award at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (KSTU). 

Tae Young Park and Jeungeun Kum were honored with Excellent Presentation Awards at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (KSTU). 

Tae Young Park won the Best Presentation Award at the 2022 KIST School, UST Academic Workshop.

Our lab's work on BCI-controlled lower-limb exoskeleton operated by SCI patient (collaborating with Dr. Song Joo Lee & Dr. Laehyun Kim) has been featured on TV show.

Dr. Hyungmin Kim has been invited as a Guest Associated Editor of Research Topic (Ultrasound Neuromodulation: Mechanisms and Applications) in Frontiers in Neuroscience - Neurotechnology.

Our lab's work on BCI-controlled lower-limb exoskeleton with AR glasses (collaborating with Dr. Song Joo Lee & Dr. Laehyun Kim) has been featured on TV news (2m20s).

Our J-BHI paper has been published as a featured article in the Special Issue on Generative Adversarial Networks in Biomedical Image Computing.

Our lab's work on BCI-controlled lower-limb exoskeleton (collaborating with Dr. Song Joo Lee & Dr. Laehyun Kim) has been featured on TV show (21m15s). 

Our lab's work on BCI-controlled lower-limb exoskeleton (collaborating with Dr. Song Joo Lee & Dr. Laehyun Kim) has been selected as one of the top 100 national R&D excellence in 2021.

Tae Young Park received funding from the UST Young Scientist Research Program 2021.

Project Title: Development of AI-based real-time acoustic simulation technology for transcranial focused ultrasound therapy

• MRI로 CT영상 생성하는 인공지능 기술 개발 (연합뉴스)

• MRI만으로 CT영상 생성하는 AI 개발…경두개 집속 초음파 시술까지 입증 (동아사이언스)

• KIST researchers develop AI tech generating CT images based on MRI (Korea Biomedical Review)

Dr. Evgenii Kim won the Academic Award at the 2021 KSTU General Assembly.

Ji Hyeok Jeong won the Second Prize at 2020 International BCI Competition.

• 착용형 무선 초음파 뇌자극기로 뇌졸중 쥐 수술없이 재활치료 (연합뉴스)

• 착용만으로… 수술 없이 뇌졸중 치료 가능 (조선일보)

• 가볍게 착용해 뇌졸중 손상 뇌신경 재활하는 초음파 자극기 (동아사이언스)

• 뇌졸중 초음파 자극 치료효과, 뇌파 변화로 예측·확인한다 (연합뉴스)

• KIST finds a strong correlation between ultrasonic stroke rehabilitation treatment and brain waves (EurekAlert!)

• 하지마비 환자, 뇌파 인식모자 쓰고 로봇옷 입고 걷는 시대 열린다 (동아사이언스)

• 내년에는 어떤 新 기술이?…미리 보는 CES (MBC NEWS)

Dr. Hyungmin Kim was honored with Excellent Advisor (Tae Young Park, MS).

Our lab's work on BCI-controlled lower-limb exoskeleton (collaborating with Dr. Song Joo Lee & Dr. Laehyun Kim) was awarded at KES 2019.

Dr. Evgenii Kim and Hee Kyung Koh were honored with Excellent Presentation Awards at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (KSTU).

Our lab's work on BCI-controlled lower-limb exoskeleton (collaborating with Dr. Song Joo Lee & Dr. Laehyun Kim) was featured on TV (7m14s) 

Tae Young Park was honored with Excellence Awards at the graduation ceremony.

Rizki Arif Pradono was honored with Best Global Research Intern Award.

Jeungeun Kum received funding from the UST Young Scientist Research Program 2019.

Project Title: Early Detection and Control of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy by Closed-loop System with Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Brain Stimulation and Ultra-Thin stretchable ECoG Electrode 

Our lab's researches on LIFU-mediated neurorehabilitation (17m35s) and BCI-controlled exoskeleton (36m17s) were on TV.

Hongchae Baek was honored with Academic Excellence Award at the graduation ceremony.

• ‘초음파’를 칼날처럼… 수술 없이 종양조직 제거하는 가능성 열렸다 (동아사이언스)

• "절개 없이 초음파로 종양 제거"…초음파수술 가능성 제시 (연합뉴스)

• KIST finds boiling histotripsy’s mechanism to remove tumor tissue (Korea Biomedical Review)

Pahk et al.'s paper on the mechanism of boiling histotripsy was accepted for publication in Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (Top Rank in ACOUSTICS, JCR 1.613%)

Tae Young Park got a Best Presentation Award at SMIT2018 -IBEC2018 Joint Conference

Dr. Hyungmin Kim got an Excellent Paper Award, National Research Foundation of Korea.

• 뇌졸중 이후 뇌신경 재활하는 초음파 자극 기술 개발 (조선비즈)

• 초음파로 뇌졸중 후유증 고친다 (동아사이언스)

• 초음파 자극으로 뇌졸중 쥐 다리 편마비 치료 성공 (연합뉴스)

Baek et al.'s paper on neurorehabilitative LIFU neuromodulation was accepted for publication in Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair (Top Rank in REHABILITATION, JCR 0.769%)