Meet Our Team

Our lab brings together experts from diverse backgrounds including medicine, computational medicine, biomedical engineering, psychology, and neuroscience.

Professor

Hyang Woon Lee, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Hyang Woon Lee is a Professor of Department of Neurology, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. Dr. Lee leads interdisciplinary research efforts on the topic of network-based mechanisms of normal or abnormal brain functions, and AI-based Neuromodulation, particularly related to sleep and epilepsy. On these topics, Dr. Lee published many articles in top-tier interdisciplinary and medical journals, presentations at international academic conferences. She has received research funding from organizations including NRF, KHIDI, ITECH, KBRI, AES, and NINDS. Dr. Lee supervised more than 30 students and post-docs, and teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on neurology, and convergence medicine, especially AI applications on medical fields.

Dr. Lee is a leading member of the Korean Neurological Association (KNA), Korean Epilepsy Society (KES), and Korean Human Brain Mapping (KHBM), and globally serving as a taskforce member of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). Dr. Lee is also a director of the Medi-Tech Research Institute (formed by medical and engineering schools to develop medical devised and technology and to resolve any umnet clinical needs) and the industry-academic cooperation center in the Ewha Womans University Medical Center. Prior to joining Ewha as a faculty member, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, clinical fellow at NINDS, National Institutes of Health, and visiting professor at Yale University School of Medicine.

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Research Faculty

Sungeun Hwang, M.D.

M.D. in Neurology, Specialty in Epilepsy & Sleep disorders

Clinical Assistant Professor, Ewha Womans University Mogdong Hospital / M.D. & MSc from Seoul National University
Research Interests: neurology, epilepsy, sleep, clinical neurophysiology, electroencephalography, intraoperative monitoring

Eun-Hwa Lee, Ph.D.

Research Professor

Research Professor (since 2025), Ewha Medical Research Institute, Ewha Womans University
Research Interests: Integrated brain circuit and neuroimmune mechanisms shaping stress susceptibility, affective dysregulation (depression/anxiety), AD-related neurodegeneration, and autism-related neurodevelopmental phenotypes
Technical Expertise: Mouse behavioral phenotyping, circuit-level manipulation and mapping, and transcriptomic profiling

DoHyun Kim, Ph.D.

PostDoctoral fellow

Postdoctoral Researcher, Ewha Medical Research Institute, Ewha Womans University
PhD in Herbology, Dongshin University
Research Interests: Epilepsy, Activity-Based Anorexia (ABA), Learned Helplessness (LH), and neurodegenerative cognitive impairment
Research Focus: Development and evaluation of brain disorder animal models; mechanism investigation via behavioral and pathological assays

Sora An, Ph.D.

Key Collaborator /

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Division of AI Convergence, Hallym University
PhD in Electronics Engineering, Ewha Womans University
Research interests: Large-scale brain network modeling, multimodal neuroimaging
My main research topic is to understand brain disorders and improve the modulation efficacy of brain stimulation therapies through the in-silico approach based on brain network modeling.

Hyeon Jin Kim, M.D., Ph.D.

Key Collaborator /

Clinial Assistant Professor

Research interests: Quantitative EEG analysis, Sleep, Circadian rhythm, Aging
My main research topic is to study the framework of quantitative analysis for brainwave spectral dynamics during sleep. My research focuses on the practical basis for daily lifestyle modification and disease prevention.

Graduate Students

Doctoral

Student

Sol Ah Kim

Graduate student in Medical Science / System Health Science & Engineering Major, Ewha Womans University
Research Interests: neuroscience, electrophysiology, big-data analysis
My main research topic focuses on rat brain stimulation, memory, and cognitive function. Our current research addresses electrical stimulation, optical stimulation, behavioral testing, and molecular testing.

Doctoral

Student

JiHye Lee

Graduate student in Computational Medicine / System Health Science & Engineering Major, Ewha Womans University
Research Interests: computational medicine, sleep, neuropsychiatry, neuroimaging, AI-based application
My main research topic is to analyze brain waves, brain images, and biometric data using machine learning. I am currently conducting research on analyzing the relationship between sleep quality through biometric data and sleep questionnaires.

Integrated Master's and Doctoral student

Maithreyee Devi, M.B.B.S.

Graduate student in Computational Medicine/System Health Science & Engineering Major, Ewha Womans University/ M.B.B.S(Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Chittagong University, Bangladesh.
Research Interests: computational medicine, sleep medicine, clinical neuropsychiatry.
My main research topic is
to examine the influences between sleep quality, brain morphology and cognition;explore the influence of age , gender,physical activity,lifestyle modalities etc. among healthy individuals as well as sleep breathing disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea.

Doctoral

Student

Cheong-hwa Park, M.D.

Graduate student in Neurology, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine
Research interests: low intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation
My main research topics include non-invasive low intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation for the treatment of brain disorders and basic animal experiments related to brain disorders - developing rat models of epilepsy or new rat models of stroke, investigating whether ultrasound neuromodulation is effective and what are the mechanisms of treatment. mechanisms.

Integrated Master's and Doctoral student

Na Young Yoon

Graduate student in Neurology, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine
Research interests: low intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation
My main research topics include non-invasive low intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation for the treatment of brain disorders and basic animal experiments related to brain disorders - developing rat models of epilepsy or new rat models of stroke, investigating whether ultrasound neuromodulation is effective and what are the mechanisms of treatment. mechanisms.

Post-Graduate Researcher

Post-Graduate Researcher

Seoyoung Lee, M.S.

Master degree(2025) in Artificial Intelligence Convergence, Ewha Womans University
B.S degree in Computer Science & Engineering major, Ewha Womans University
Interested in automating discrimination of disorder with AI and computational modeling of brain network.
Currently, my research focuses on developing statistical processing methods for epilepsy seizure data.

Post-Graduate Researcher

Eunku Bae, M.S.

Master degree(2025) in Artificial Intelligence Convergence, Ewha Womans University
Research Interests: Representational learning utilizing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)
My main research topic is to explore complex human brain connectivity to estimate cognitive behaviors using Graph Neural Networks with the in-depth processing of functional and structural data derived from sMRI, dMRI, and fMRI

Researcher

Ju Young Kim, M.Eng.

MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
Research Interests: LLM multi-agent systems for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) screening
My main research topic is the development of LLM-based multi-agent systems for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) screening based on sleep questionnaire data, aiming to enable scalable and accessible screening methods without relying on resource-intensive overnight polysomnography.

Post-Baccalaureate

Post-Baccalaureate Researcher

Eunji Cho, B.S.

B.S. degree in psychology and statistics, University of California, Berkeley
My main research topic is on utilizing big-data analysis to analyze neuroimaging, epilepsy, neurodegenerative disease, and sleep disorders. Currently, my research focuses on exploring memory function based on hippocampal subfield volumes in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE).

Post-Baccalaureate Researcher

Hee Sang Yang, M.D.

M.D., Yonsei University, College of Medicine
My research interests lie in neurocognitive disorders, with a focus on their associations with sleep architecture.

Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate Intern

Esther Mikyung Nam

Undergraduate student in the Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
My current research interests are the neurological and cognitive underpinnings of language and their relevancy to neuropathological disorders.

Undergraduate Intern

Donghyun Kevin Kwak

Undergraduate student in the Neuroscience major, Princeton University
Research interests: cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychiatry, clinical neuropsychology, brain plasticity
I aspire to explore the neurobiological links between the brain and environmental stimuli. My research aims to identify specific healing benefits of art that conventional methods such as brain surgery or psychiatric medication may not achieve. Specifically, my research intends to explore the psychiatric significance and therapeutic effects of art activities using the traditional artistic media comprising 紙 (paper), 墨 (ink), and 筆 (brush) – collectively known as Ji-Pil-Muk, influencing cognitive perception and reshaping the human perception structure.

Undergraduate Intern

Elise B. Cauley

Undergraduate Neuroscience student at Trinity University
Research interest lies in how pathology physically manifests in the brain.
Specifically, interested in uncovering the neurobiological link between epilepsy and its comorbidities.
Background working with mouse models of Autism Spectrum Disorder.