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Kangjoo Lee, Ph.D.
I am a computational neuroscientist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University in Miami. My work focuses on developing advanced quantitative methods for multimodal neuroimaging and identifying neuroimaging-based markers of neurological and psychiatric disorders to support early risk detection and individualized treatment planning.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering and Computing
Florida International University
Address: R10555 West Flagler Street, Suite EC 3160, Miami, FL 33174
Contact: Email Me
Latest News
(2026) I’m thrilled to share that I joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor starting January 2026. As part of this transition, I will be recruiting two PhD students through FIU’s Biomedical Engineering PhD program to begin in Fall 2026.
(2025) An abstract Lee et al. "BrainCAP: an open-source platform for identifying brain co-activation patterns using functional MRI" has been accepted for poster presentation at EBRAINS Summit 2025, Brussels, Belgium, December 8-11, 2025.
(2025) A co-authored article Cross et al., Sleep deprivation constrains dynamic configurations of integrated and segregated brain states impacting cognitive performance is now on bioRxiv.
(2025) A first-authored article Lee et al., A framework for advancing mechanistic neuro-behavioral biomarkers in psychiatry has been published in Biological Psychiatry.
(2025) Kangjoo has been recognized as an Honorable Mention at the 2025 Stanford–Berkeley–UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium.
(2025) Kangjoo joined the OHBM Program Committee as an Ad-hoc member for a 3-year term. I am very excited about this opportunity and looking forward to contributing to the organization of impactful scientific programming and helping shape the future of neuroimaging research.
(2025) A co-authored article Berkovitch et al., A common symptom geometry of mood improvement under sertraline and placebo associated with distinct neural patterns has been published in Psychological Medicine.
(2025) A co-authored article Rahmati et al., Ketamine Alters Tuning of Neural and Behavioral Spatial Working Memory Precision is now on bioRxiv.
(2025) An abstract Lee et al. "BrainCAP: an open-source neuroimaging toolkit to analyze brain co-activation patterns" has been accepted for both oral and poster presentations at OHBM, Brisbane, Australia, June 24-28, 2025.
(2025) One senior-authored abstract, Howell et al., and two co-authored abstracts, Chen et al., and Brege et al., have been accepted as poster presentations at SOBP, April 2025.
Media
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09/24/2024 Kangjoo's recent neuroimaging research was featured in YaleNews : Biomarkers for psychiatric illness? Study gets researchers one step closer. Featured as top news on Yale Today, September 27, 2024.
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09/25/2024 Kangjoo's recent neuroimaging research was featured in Tech Explorist : Brain activity patterns could help identify mental health markers.
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09/25/2024 Kangjoo's recent neuroimaging research was featured in NeuroscienceNews : Shared Brain Activity Patterns Linked to Behavior Identified.
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06/11/2024 Kangjoo was featured in @Yale Psychiatry, the monthly newsletter of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, for her presentation at the SOBP 2024 conference.
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11/03/2015 Kangjoo was interviewed by EBS, which filmed the Integrated Program in Neuroscience at McGill. YouTube Video
