Sung Phil Kim

Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering

Korea University,

Anam 5ga, Seongbuk Gu, Seoul, Korea

office) 82-2-3290-5921
email) spkim@korea.ac.kr

Research Interests

· Brain-Computer Interfaces

· Decoding neural population spiking activity

· Neural population codes

· On-line training methods for brain-computer interfaces

· Nonlinear manifold learning for neural spiking data

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Biography

I joined the Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering at Korea University in September 2009 as an assistant professor. My major research area focuses on developing a brain-computer interface (BCI).

Until August 2009, I worked in the neural interface research team as a postdoctoral researcher starting from September 2005. My supervisors was Dr. Michael Black in Computer Science at Brown University. I have been working for the BrainGate^TM clinical pilot trial for the study of the feasibility of intracortical brain-machine interfaces in humans with tetraplegia. I have developed decoding algorithms to decipher computer cursor movement signals from human motor cortical neurons.

I received my Ph.D and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. I was working in the Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory, supervised by Dr. Jose C. Principe, for a joint brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) project in collaboration with Duke University, SUNY and MIT. In this project, I have developed a number of signal processing algorithmic tools for decoding kinematic variables from hundreds of cortical activity of a monkey.

I received my B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Rep. in 1994.

I live with my wonderful wife, Mikyung, and two lovely daughters, Ejew and Ewon.