Drawing on my background in nursing and training in engineering, I study how mental health experiences such as anxiety, depression, and distress vary across individuals and over time. I am interested in how these experiences are reflected in subjective reports, behavior, physiology, and everyday life, and in the patterns that emerge across these different sources of information.
I use digital technologies and longitudinal data to better capture these patterns and understand what they may mean for individual care. By bringing together different forms of information, I hope to contribute to healthcare systems that can respond more meaningfully to individual needs. Ultimately, I hope this work can support more precise and human-centered decision-making in healthcare.
Education
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Keimyung University
Certification & Training
Korea National Enterprise for Clinical Trial
Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare
Projects
Research on virtual reality–based approaches to anxiety, spanning clinical acceptance, intervention development, and physiological, cognitive, and behavioral responses during repeated virtual reality sessions.
A 24-week longitudinal study using repeated clinical assessments and smartphone-based lifelog data to investigate changes in mood and mental health over time.
Development and evaluation of a conversational patient education system designed to support patients’ understanding of AI-assisted mammography, including the role and limitations of artificial intelligence and informed decision-making.
A longitudinal digital mental health project using smartphone and wearable data to investigate behavioral signals associated with mental health and their potential use in ongoing monitoring.
Research examining how psychiatrists encounter and interpret generative artificial intelligence in clinical practice, with a focus on its appropriate roles, limitations, safety, governance, and implementation priorities in mental health care.
Publications
Methods
I welcome correspondence from researchers, clinicians, and engineers working at the intersection of digital technology and mental health.
A Footnote, Since You Made It This Far
Outside the lab, my time tends to drift between philosophy, fiction, and two four-stringed instruments: a ukulele and a bass ukulele (yes, bass ukuleles do exist). Film and animation are where I often go looking for good stories. On my shelves, Foucault sits next to Chiikawa. They may seem like an unlikely pair, but both, in their own ways, have something to say about how one gets through a difficult world (one just does so with considerably smaller and rounder characters).
Classical music, jazz, and tango are the sounds I return to most often, especially while working through analyses that were supposed to be “final” several versions ago (a term I continue to use despite repeated evidence against it). I tend to be drawn to things that are gentle, strange, and more complicated than they first appear. Mostly, I am trying to notice more, read widely, and leave enough room for curiosity.
Note. I have a soft spot for footnotes, notes in the margins, and parenthetical asides. They often reveal not only what a text says, but also what it is doing (this page may already have demonstrated that).