Jinwoo Lee



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Jinwoo Yi

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About



last update: Aug 2025

I study how people’s diverse affective feelings in real life can converge into communicable representations. Specifically, my work focuses on 1) identifying socio-biological structures of the human affect system, 2) developing methodologies to investigate it, and 3) translating the resulting scientific insights to adjacent fields such as mental health and robotics. To this end, I combine experimental approaches (e.g., naturalistic neuroimaging) with computational techniques (e.g., representational learning/alignment, predictive modeling).

Curriculum Vitae


Education

2025.09 - Present | 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 painful artworks
   Advisor: Dr. Jiook Cha (SNU, Psychology)


News

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July, 2025     My master thesis of awe was accpeted at Nature Communications Psychology! 📕    

Mar, 2025     I have officially accepted the PhD admission offer from UCSD Psychology! 🏫

Dec, 2024     My co-first-authored paper was accepted at the AAAI2025 Workshop AI for Music! 📕

Nov, 2024     I oral-presented my master thesis of awe at KHBM2024 and awarded the Best Presenter Award! 🏆

Oct, 2024     My undergraduate thesis was officially published at Empirical Studies of the Arts! 📕
 

Research Highlight

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Awe is characterized as an ambivalent affect in the human behavior and cortex:
integrated VR-EEG study
2025 | Communications Psychology | paper
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#valence  #contrastive_learning  #VR
Revisiting Your Memory: reconstruction of
affect-contextualized memory via EEG-guided
audiovisual generation
2025 | AAAI2025 Workshop | paper
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#reconstruction  #multimodal_generation  
The twofold role of subjective fluency in displeasing but preferable visual artworks:
self-report and eye-tracking analysis
2024 | Empirical Studies of the Arts | paper
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#aesthetics  #eye_tracking  #bayesian_modeling



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