Eunah Yang

Hi, I am Eunah(pronounced: ɯna) and I study network neuroscience. “Why are you and I different?” is my biggest question nowadays, and I want to work it out through human MRI data.

Human minds do not respond to inputs in entirely random ways, but individuals are clearly distinct in how they perceive, process, and respond to them. Experiences can shape the mind and brain over time, but why and how does this process occur differently across individuals? I want to understand how common cognitive process happens differently in each person, and how these individual differences are reflected in brain structure, function, or both, and how we can quantify and translate them into a form we can interpret, using human MRI and whole-brain network approaches.

Currently, I’m a research assistant at Samsung Medical Center (SMC), working with Prof. Kwangsun Ray Yoo. My current works focus on bridging computational modeling and cognitive neuroscience with brain networks (especially with connectomes!). Before this, I received my M.S. in the Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering at KAIST, under the supervision of Prof. Yong Jeong. My project explored Parkinson’s disease heterogeneity from a mixed-pathological perspective, focusing on the cognitive and neuropsychiatric burdens beyond motor deficits. Earlier, I earned my B.S. in Life Science at GIST, where I did my very first individual project in Prof. Tae Kim’s lab. I explored how eosinophilia-induced hypoxia affects brain vasculature integrity in mice.