Education
2011
Ph.D., Department of Bio & Brain Engineering, KAIST)
2006
B.S., Department of Bio & Brain Engineering, KAIST
Career
2026 ~ present
- SNU College, Seoul National University; Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University
2023~2026
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNIST
2018~2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNIST
2014~2017
Senior Research Associate, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC (formally, Virginia Tech Carillon Research Institute), Roanoke, VA, USA
2011~2014
- Postdoctoral Associate, Virginia Tech Carillon Research Institute, Roanoke, VA, USA
Research Interests
- Decision Neuroscience
- Neuroimaging
- Neuroeconomics
- Decision-making
- Social interaction
Publication
- Jiwon Park#, Dongil Chung** (2026). Adaptive generalization and efficient learning under uncertainty, iScience, 29(9). doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.117210
- Manjae Kwon†, Minkyung Park†, Minjae Kim†#, Jungyoon Kang, Woo-Young Ahn, Dongil Chung**, Jung-Seok Choi*, Young-Chul Jung* (2026). The effectiveness of transcranial photobiomodulation therapy (tPBM) and transauricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on reducing alcohol craving, Neurotherapeutics, 26(4). doi.org/10.1016/j.neurot.2026.e00937
- Woojin Jung†, HeeYoung Seon†#, Sunhae Sul, Dongil Chung** (2026). Social norms modulate asymmetric effects of group opinions on cue-induced smoking craving, Addictive Behaviors, Available online 25 January 2026. doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2026.108623 (IF Rank @ Substance Abuse = 3/21)
- Seungbeom Seo†, Sunmin Kim†#, Sung-Phil Kim, Jaeho Kim*, Suk Yun Kang*, Dongil Chung** (2024). Low-frequency EEG power and coherence differentiate drug-induced Parkinsonism from Parkinson’s disease, Clinical Neurophysiology, 168:131-138. doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2024.10.013
- Mark A. Orloff†, Dongil Chung†, Xiaosi Gu†, Zhixian Gao, Guiding Song, Chandana Tatineni, Xingchao Wang, Shuai Xu, Brooks Casas, Pearl H. Chiu (2024). Social conformity emerges as a heuristic during decision-making in humans with lesions of insular or anterior cingulate cortices, PLoS Computational Biology, 20(12): e1012602. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012602
- HeeYoung Seon#, Dongil Chung** (2024). Policy shaping based on the learned preferences of others accounts for risky decision-making under social observation, eLife, 13:RP102228. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.102228.2
- Madalina Vlasceanu†*, Kimberly C. Doell†*, Joseph B. Bak Coleman, Samantha J. Grayson, Yifei Pei, Ekaterina Pronizius, Danielle Goldwert, Yash Patel, Denisa Vlasceanu, Sara Constantino, Michael J. Morais, Alek Chakroff, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, …, Dongil Chung, …, & Jay J. Van Bavel (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: a global intervention tournament in 63 countries, Science Advances, 10:eadj5778. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778
- Hyeji Lee#†, Yoonji Jeon†, Cheolin Yoo, HeeYoung Seon#, Jiwon Park#, Minho Hwang#, Kwangyeol Baek*, Dongil Chung** (2023). Persistent impacts of smoking on resting-state EEG in male chronic smokers and past-smokers with 20 years of abstinence. Scientific Reports, 13:3907. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29547-3
- Yeonju Sin†, HeeYoung Seon†#, Yun Kyong Shin, Oh-Sang Kwon*, Dongil Chung** (2021). Subjective optimality in finite sequential decision-making. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(12):e1009633. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009633
- Soojung Na†, Dongil Chung†, Andreas Hula, Ofer Perl, Jennifer Jung, Matthew Heflin, Sylvia Blackmore, Vincenzo G. Fiore, Peter Dayan, Xiaosi Gu* (2021). Humans use forward thinking to exploit social controllability. eLife, 10:e64983. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64983
- Dongil Chung†, Mark A. Orloff†, Nina Lauharatanahirun, Brooks King-Casas*, Pearl H. Chiu* (2020). Valuation of peers’ safe choices is associated with substance-naïveté in adolescents. PNAS, first published November 30, 2020. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1919111117
Other publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vqSJ1nsAAAAJ&hl=en
