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Hyunjae’s team took first place at the Korean Society for Computational Neuroscience Winter School. Congratulations!

MuBL members attended the 3rd Yamaha–KAIST Joint Workshop held in Yokohama, Japan. During the workshop, Prof. Lee presented an overview of our lab’s research, followed by meaningful discussions with Yamaha researchers.

Prof. Lee delivered a keynote talk at the HCMIR Workshop, a satellite event of ISMIR 2025. The talk was titled “Understanding the Human Experience of Music to Shape Future Technologies of MIR.” More information is available here.

이경면 교수님께서 6월 13일(금) 개최되는 2025 KAIST-MIT Convergence Conference에서 발표자로 참여하십니다.

🔊Prof. Lee presented our lab's research!

🔊Seokbeom Park, Youjin Choi and Taein Song presented at KSMPC 2025!

Seokbeom Park enjoyed a Jam Session with other researchers !🎸🎵

Taein Song (M.S.) joined the Music and Brain Lab in Fall 2024.

Soojin Kang presented the poster at the Neurosciences and Music - VIII.

Seokbeom Park, Hyunjae Kim, Eunji Oh and Jieun Park presented at SORI Workshop.

The newly formed band comprising all members of the Music and Brain Lab successfully completed their debut concert, drawing an enthusiastic response from the audience and marking a significant milestone for the group.

Hyojin Kim (M.S.) joined the Music and Brain Lab in Fall 2023.

Prof. Lee was interviewed by the Seoul National University Career Story.

We attended 2023 KSMPC Summer School.

Prof. Kyung Myun Lee and Eunji Oh presented at Music, Mathematics & Language -Through the lens of data-.

Hyundai Motor Group Sound Design Research Lab visited our laboratory.

Youjin Choi (M.S.) joined the Music and Brain Lab in Spring 2023.

Professor Kyung Myun Lee was awarded the 2022 Outstanding Research Innovation Prize from KAIST College of Liberal Arts and Convergence Science.

Hyunjae Kim’s paper was accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2026. The paper is titled “Transferable Audio Lottery Tickets: Gradient Accumulation for Extreme Sparsity,” authored by Hyunjae Kim, Juhan Nam, and Kyung Myun Lee. Congratulations!

MuBL members attended the 2025 KSMPC conference held in Yeosu. This year, our lab presented 2 oral talks and 6 posters, sharing a wide range of exciting research. We’re especially happy to share that three members (Hyojin Kim, Minyoung Bae, and Seung Hyeon Jo) received the Outstanding Presentation Award (우수발표상) 🎉 Huge congratulations to all presenters for their great work!

Mirinae Lee (M.S.) joined the Music and Brain Lab in May 2025.

우리 랩 석사과정 최유진 학생이 석사학위를 취득하였습니다. 🎉

We achieved the KAIST-MIT Cooperative Convergence Research Projects!

Among the research projects supported by the Professional Manpower Training for VR/AR, 'Research Trends in Virtual Reality Music Concert Technology: A Systematic Literature Review' has been selected as an outstanding achievement. As a result, Youjin Choi presented this research at HCI Korea 2025.

🔈Seokbeom Park and Eunji Oh presented at ISMIR 2024.

Hayeon Park and Haim Lee joined Music & Brain Lab as interns in Summer 2024.

Eunji Oh's works were accepted as abstract at Society for Music Perception and Cognition, SMPC 2024 Conference.

Seokbeom Park, Hyunjae Kim, Eunji Oh and Jieun Park presented at the 67th Korean Society for Music Perception and Cognition (KSMPC) Conference.

We were interviewed with Donga Science about 'Music and Brain'.

Music and Brain members attended YAMAHA Ginza!

Hyunjae Kim displayed his artwork, '나비효과: the musical mind', at Computational Artwork Exhibition.

Seokbeom Park, Hyunjae Kim, Youjin Choi, and Jieun Park presented at SORI Workshop.

We achieved the National Research Foundation (NRF) grant funding for Basic Research Laboratory (BRL) 2023!

Hyunjae Kim's and Eunji Oh's works were accepted as poster presentations at the 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 2023.

Soojin Kang, Seokbeom Park, Hyunjae Kim, and Eunji Oh presented their works at the 66th Korean Society of Music Perception and Cognition 2023.

MuBL members participated and presented at the Autumn Annual Conference of Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering, 2022.

Taein Song received an Honorable Mention in the “AI x Humanity Competition” held at KAIST DHCSS for her essay titled “When Music Adapts to Us: Restoring Auditory Diversity and Inclusivity Through Personalization Technology." This explores strategies for enhancing musical accessibility and personalization using AI technologies, with a particular focus on DHH population.

Our lab members attended the ISMIR 2025 conference held at KAIST, Daejeon. All students served as local student volunteers. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication!

우리 랩 석사과정 김효진 학생이 석사학위를 취득하였습니다. 🎉

우리 랩 멤버들이 속한 밴드 '드르렁마찝'이 KAIST 문화기술대학원 20주년 기념 동문회 발족식에서 축하 공연을 진행하였습니다.

Seokboem Park has been selected for the 2025 Venture Research Program at KAIST with his project titled "Towards Inbestigating Groove Experience in Gugak".

Eunji Oh, Hyojin Kim, Seokbeom Park, Haim Lee (Intern), and Kyungmyun Lee curated a stage, "UNIVER:US," utilizing real-time brainwave synchronization as part of the X-Space project, a collaboration between KAIST and the Daejeon Arts Center.

Jieun Park has successfully earned Master's degree! 🎉

Seokbeom Park and Eunji Oh's papers were accepted at the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2024.

Jieun Park presented at IEEE VR 2024.

Eunji Oh has successfully graduated with the Master's degree!🎉

The paper of Jieun Park and Youjin Choi was accepted at the TVCG Special Issue for the 31th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) 2024.

Eunji Oh and Hyunjae Kim presented at ICMPC17.

Seokbeom Park, Jieun Park, Youjin Choi, Hyunjae Kim, and Eunji Oh presented at Music & Audio Workshop.

Youjin Choi performed at the Lunch Concert.

Music and Brain Lab invited Prof. Bob McMurray, an F. Wendell Miller Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa, with a special seminar on May 10th. The topic of the seminar was "Decoding the real-time neural dynamics of language processing".

We achieved the research project (Consolidator Grants 2023) by the Ministry of Science and ICT!

Jieun Park presented her work at the HCI Korea 2023 conference.