Wooseok Jung

Bioengineering PhD Student @ UC Berkeley & UCSF

Seoul, South Korea

About

Graduated with MMath degree from the University of Oxford. Mainly interested in brdging the gap between theoretical and clinical neuroscience through machine learning, mathematics, and neuroimaging.

Experience

  • Graduate Student Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • VUNO Inc. (Full-time · 3 yrs 10 mos)
    • Team Lead, Brain Research & AI for Neuroimaging (BRAIN) Team
      Jul 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr

    • Brain Part Lead, Brain, Lung & 3D Imaging (BLU3) team
      May 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

      - Managed the AI engine codebase of DeepBrain and designed an efficient product pipeline. - Spearheaded the short and long-term product planning of VUNO-Med DeepBrain, including research objectives and writing grant applications, in collaboration with VUNO's software engineering team and domestic & global marketing teams. - Delivered presentations introducing VUNO-Med DeepBrain software, including a showcase featuring VUNO-Med DeepBrain and its future direction at RSNA 2023.

    • Medical AI Research Scientist
      Sep 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

      - Improved T1 MRI intracranial volume segmentation model for more accurate atrophy quantification - Introduced the multi-task multiple instance learning architecture for WMH segmentation and Fazekas scale prediction - Organized a research seminar series to establish a collaborative environment in VUNO’s R&D Center.

  • AI Research Intern at Seoul National University
    Jul 2021 - Aug 2021 · 2 mos

    SNU AI Institute Summer Internship @ Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Center (PI: Jun Soo Kwon) Project title: A novel MMN classification method using machine learning and the signature transform

  • Machine Learning Research Intern at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Jul 2020 - Sep 2020 · 3 mos

    - Implemented a theoretical framework to evaluate performance how much a reinforcement model imitates human behaviour. - Developed an algorithm to categorize reinforcement learning models with respect to Jensen-Shannon Divergence of their policy distributions.

  • Research Intern at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
    Jul 2019 - Aug 2019 · 2 mos

    - Conducted in silico experiments to determine the difference in dynamics of various neuronal models. - Proved the Depolarizing After Potential (DAP) model exhibits shorter opening in potassium channel than the original Hodgkin-Huxley model.