News
Mar, 2025
We were awarded a basic research grant entitled “Development of brain-inspired reinforcement learning based on dopamine diversity(다중 도파민 신호를 이용한 뇌기반 강화학습 알고리즘 개발)”!
Feb 14, 2025
Nawoon was awarded in the Korean Society For Cognitive and Biological Psychology conference “An active avoidance task in augmented reality to investigate responses to visual fear memory”. Congratulations!
Jan 31, 2025
Lumi, undergraduate RA in the lab, was admitted to Neurobiology Ph.D. program at Duke University. Congratulations!
Oct 7, 2024
Mijoo gave a talk “A derivative-like dopaminergic computation across valences” in Nanosymposium at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2024. Great job!
Sep 24, 2024
Our manuscript entitled “A Normative Framework Dissociates Need and Motivation in Hypothalamic Neurons” was accepted by Science Advances. This was a joyful collaboration with Dr. Hyung Jin Choi’s lab. Congratulations Jongwon and all the authors!
May 22, 2024
Hyein, Yeowon, Ben, Jongheon, and HyungGoo submitted our second application for registering a domestic patent entitled “Reinforcement learning method in the virtual environment with shared memory”. Fingers crossed!
Feb 2, 2024
Jongheon was awarded (장려상) in the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (정보과학회) for his undergrad work. Congrats!
Dec 26, 2023
The lab introduction interview is on the the SKKU webzine (Korean)!
Sep 27, 2023
The first-ever journal submission based on the work done in NeuRLab happened! Jongwon has been working on quantitative analysis and computational modeling to dissociate need and motivation using neural data collected in Dr. Hyung Jin Choi’s lab. It was a fun collaboration. Fingers crossed!
Sep, 2023
Jongwon and Mijoo presented at KSBNS 2023. Mijoo won a poster presentation award. Congrats!
Sep, 2023
Rin, Jaebin, and Thania started a semester as graduate students in the lab. Good luck!
Aug 2, 2023
Nawoon, SeungYub, Hoyeon, and HyungGoo submitted an application for registering a domestic patent, which is the first-ever submission event for review in the lab. Fingers crossed!
July, 2023
We were awarded K-Brain Project (뇌과학 선도융합기술개발사업) team grant for our proposal entitled “Development of neural in silico model for PTSD with incorporation of multi-modal data(다중 분석 데이터 기반 PTSD 신경회로 in silico 모델 개발)”. We will focus on developing deep-learning models that can explain animal and human data.
Jun, 2023
We were awarded basic research (기본연구) grant for our proposal entitled “Investigating neural information processing in the lateral habenula using virtual reality”!
April, 2023
A lab intro video is now online. Awesome!
Feb, 2023
Some good moments during the winter vacation!
Oct 6, 2022
The first mouse MRI taken in the lab - we are in Center for Neuroscience Imaging Center!
Aug 28, 2022
Now we have a customized monitoring tool for deep learning machines!
Aug 8, 2022
Face recognition for lab entry log by Yeowon and HyeIn. Hopefully, accuracy will get better with mask!
July 4, 2022
2D VR under construction by ExCool team + SeongYub. Hopefully, mice love 2D arena!
May 20, 2022
Hogyu, Siyoung, and Lumi gave the lab’s (and their) first poster presentations ever at KSBNS 2022 . Well done!
May 18, 2022
HyungGoo’s paper, entitled “A neural mechanism for detecting object motion during self-motion” was accepted by eLife!
Feb 26, 2022
We began setting up VRs in the second mouse room. More experiments, more data!
Feb 23, 2022
We had a lab tour for 1st year undergrads. It was the first-ever presentations done by lab members. Nicely done!
Feb 21, 2022
Our online experiment monitoring tools now work well! made by Y. Kim
Jan 24, 2022
Finally, the first Neuropixels recording in the lab! First ~20 neurons sorted on the same day. Some shows beautiful visual responses! Thanks to the collaboration between J. Yun and M. Park.
Jan 11, 2022
HyungGoo’s paper, entitled “The Role of State Uncertainty in the Dynamics of Dopamine”, was accepted by Current Biology!
Dec 31, 2021
2nd-generation VR rig! Hope it works well and we can double the VR rigs in the next year! designed by H. Jung.
Dec 30, 2021
Working on phy , URP by J. Yun and M. Park.
Oct 4, 2021
Finally, the first neural signals (dopamine sensor) in the ventral striatum. Surgeries done by S. Lee and J. Yang.
Sep 9, 2021
Our proposal for SKKU’s 2021 AI convergence research (AI융합연구지원사업 1단계) was awarded! It was based on J. Park’s thesis project - congrats!
Aug 31, 2021
Now we have more undergrads, so we have to say bye to an old way… switching to a google doc!
Aug 19, 2021
Making progress on NHP rigs! SC, LL, and HK were too shy to be on the photo!
Aug 11, 2021
The first RL agent in the lab! The parking agent is in stable baseline , trained by W. Cho!
Aug 11, 2021
L. Lee made cute signs for our VR rigs!
Aug 4, 2021
In this Youtube video made by GBME 알리미, HyungGoo explains what students can learn in the BME department at SKKU (in Korean).
July 29, 2021
HyungGoo gave a talk in the CJK Symposium on Monoamine signals.
July 26, 2021
The first DeepLabCut demo in the lab by J. Bu! DeepLabCut is a convolutional neural network(CNN)-based python package for automatic pose estimation.
Jun 26, 2021
DAT-Cre mice were finally delivered to the lab!!
Jun 22, 2021
The first lick signal from m1 in the VR rig. Looks like m1 was quite thirsty!
Jun 17, 2021
The first day of animal training!
May 28, 2021
Let’s have a deep-ly learning summer!
May 21, 2021
The first progress report in the lab. Jaecheol presented how to set up a deep learning machine. Thanks!
May 19, 2021
The first surgery in the lab. well done!
May 17, 2021
We had an inaugral journal club about hippocampus led by Taeyeon. It was a nice start!
May 11, 2021
The first day to enter animal facility. The facility looks great!
May 7, 2021
Finally! Neuropixels was delivered to the lab!
May 6, 2021
The first AAV was delivered to the lab! Glad to see that the dry ice was fully refilled. Thanks!
April 30, 2021
The first experimental protocol was approved without a revision request. What a surprise!
April 28, 2021
Glad to see Kilosort and Phy again! We hope coin prices go down such that we can get GPUs with lower prices…
April 7, 2021
Finally! Welcome to the virtual world!
April 2, 2021
Four behavior rigs are up. It’s neat, cute, and classy. More are coming!
Mar 18, 2021
Finally, NI (National Instrument) DAQ cards were delivered to the lab today! It took longer than expected, perhaps due to the parts for Neuropixels. So happy to see a computer running NI MAX!
Mar 5, 2021
The first whole-team-work! We took a divide and conquer approach - working on different things simultaneously such that individuals can master one thing at a time!
Mar 2, 2021
Today we had the first-ever lab meeting! Ben joined the lab meeting via Zoom, making it an international one! Here is the lab’s first collaborative effort - putting a white board on the wall and find out a time slot that works for everybody!
Feb 17, 2021
HyungGoo recorded a lecture to celebrate the Brain Awareness week (March 15-21, 세계뇌주간). It was challenging but very much fun!
Feb 10, 2021
For those of you who have worked with 80/20 rails, take a look at Ajin’s one-touch bracket . You screw once and you are done!
Feb 8, 2021
The first round of offers are being made. Excited to work together as a team from March!
Feb 6, 2021
Parts, computers, and monitors… more are coming! Hopefully, we fill the NAS with beautiful data and expand it soon!
Feb 1, 2021
First day! It’s surprising that all the parts were delivered to the lab safely from all over the world (even if I put a wrong address for some packages)!
Jan 19, 2021
Paul Masset’s abstract (HyungGoo participated) was accepted for poster presentation at Cosyne 2021 !
Jan 6, 2021
HyungGoo’s last day in Uchida lab. You guys will be missed!
Dec 30, 2020
HyungGoo’s last lab party in Uchida lab!
Dec 12, 2020
Paul Masset presented a poster (HyungGoo participated) entitled “Diversity of discounting horizons explains ramping diversity in dopaminergic neuron” in Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2020.
Nov 27, 2020
Our paper is finally published in Cell!