Seongyeon Kim

Ph.D. Student

Academic Qualifications

  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, Korea), 2017
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, Korea), 2019
  • M.Phil., Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University (New York, NY, USA), 2025

Biography

Seongyeon Kim graduated from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), earned Bachelor of Science in 2017 and Master of Science in 2019 with a major of Electrical Engineering. As his master thesis, he conducted research on transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation with high spatial resolution and a miniaturized ultrasound transducer for freely moving mice under Professor Hyunjoo Jenny Lee. Before Joining UEIL, he worked for TmaxSoft, Korea, for three years, as a backend engineer to fulfill military duty. Seongyeon joined UEIL as a PhD student in the fall of 2022 and his research interests include focused ultrasound neuromodulation and functional ultrasound imaging.

Awards

  • Student Travel Grant Award, IEEE UFFC-JS 2024, Taipei, Taiwan

Publications

Conference abstracts and proceedings

FUN 2023: Investigation on the relationship between upstream activation and downstream activation induced by peripheral FUS stimulation

Seongyeon Kim
Stephen A. Lee
Elisa E. Konofagou