Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, ROK 

 2013.09 - 2020.05  Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Brown University, RI, USA

 2009.03 - 2013.02  B.S. in Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, ROK 

 2023.03 - present  Assistant Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, ROK

 2019.10 - 2023.02  Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California-Berkeley, CA, USA

Our lab aims to understand the neural mechanisms of perception. Perception is an inference of the most likely objects given sensory evidence and prior expectations about the sensory world. Yet, much of sensory neuroscience has focused on how the brain faithfully represents sensory information. Our research seeks to reframe the goal of perception as inference rather than faithful representation, and thereby reinterpret theories of neural coding at multiple levels; from psychological computations to circuit-level algorithms, down to neural implementations. In this vein, a specific question that we aim to elucidate concerns the spatiotemporal scale of corticocortical communication across the sensory hierarchy. To this end, we employ an interdisciplinary approach, primarily leveraging techniques from systems neuroscience (e.g., two-photon imaging, two-photon holographic optogenetics, extracellular electrophysiology) and computational neuroscience (e.g., neural population activity decoding, network simulation).

Postdoctoral researchers : 김동욱, 이채리, 윤동현

Graduate students : 김예림, 김의연, 김제현, 김기태, 조현희, 송현우 

Postbaccalaureate researchers : 강동호

Homepage : https://biosci.snu.ac.kr/neuroshin

Contact : hyeyoung_shin@snu.ac.kr