About me

I am a Clinical Psychology Trainee in the Department of Psychiatry at Samsung Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry (March 2026 - Present). I earned my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Seoul National University, where I conducted my doctoral research in the Computational Clinical Science Lab (February 2026). I also earned a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology Seoul National University in February 2022.

My research interests bridges basic cognitive neuroscience and computational psychiatry. I study how memory system and reinforcement learning interact to guide decisions, particularly when the relevant context is uncertain or changing. I am especially interested in how contextual and motivational states, such as stress and craving, shape which past experiences are retrieved, how options are valued, and which actions are ultimately selected.
I seek to apply this framework to maladaptive behavior across psychiatric conditions, including addiction, anxiety disorders, and mood disorders such as depression. Across these conditions, memories, learned values, and current internal states may bias behavior toward choices that no longer serve an individual’s goals. Using computational modeling, naturalistic tasks, neuroimaging, and repeated assessments of everyday behavior, I aim to identify cognitive and neural mechanisms that are shared across conditions as well as those that give rise to distinct patterns of maladaptive decision-making.

Keywords: Computational psychiatry, Decision neuroscience, Stress, Physiological markers