Jinwoo Lee
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Jinwoo Yi
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last update: Apr, 2025
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2025.09 - | Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology
UC San Diego
Advisor: Dr. Eshin Jolly (UCSD, Psychology)
2022.09 - 2024.08 | M.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Seoul National University
Thesis: Awe is characterized as an ambivalent experience in the human behavior and cortex
Advisor: Dr. Jiook Cha (SNU, Psychology)
Committee: Dr. Sang Ah Lee (SNU, Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
Dr. Choong-Wan Woo (SKKU, Biomedical Engineering)
2016.03 - 2022.08 | B.A. in Psychology (Double: Aesthetics)
Seoul National Univerisity, Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: How we get pleasures from artworks - potential role of affective keyboard in the nucleus accumbens
Advisor: Dr. Jiook Cha (SNU, Psychology)
Research interest
- affect dynamics: e.g., “Does certain affective state work as an ‘attractor’ in one’s emotional experiences?”
- mental health: e.g., “How does one’s mental health interact with temporal dynamics of affective states?”
- empirical aesthetics: e.g., “How can people get preference for displeasing and challenging artworks?”
... and I'm also open to collaborations on other related topics!
News
Mar, 2025
Nov, 2024
Nov, 2024
Oct, 2024
My co-first author paper was presented at the AAAI2025 Workshop AI for Music! 🎤
I was awarded the Research Grant for Innovative VR Application ($14,500) for my post-ms project! 💰
I oral-presented my master thesis at KHBM2024 and awarded the Best Presenter Award! 🏆
My undergraduate thesis was officially published at Empirical Studies of the Arts! 📕
Research Highlight
2025 | AAAI2025 Workshop | link
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#affect_dynamics #empirical_aesthetics
integrated VR-EEG study
2024 | under review | preprint
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#ambivalent_affect #affect_dynamics
causal machine learning approach
2024 | under review | preprint
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#affect_dynamics #mental_health
2024 | Empirical Studies of the Arts | link
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#ambivalent_affect #empirical aesthetics
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