Education
2011
KAIST 바이오및뇌공학과 박사
2006
KAIST 바이오및뇌공학과 학사
Career
2026 ~ 현재
서울대학교 학부대학 및 뇌인지과학과 부교수
2023 ~ 2026
UNIST 바이오메디컬공학과 부교수
2018 ~ 2023
UNIST 바이오메디컬공학과 조교수
2014 ~ 2017
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC 시니어 연구원
2011 ~ 2014
Virginia tech Carillon Research Institute 박사후연구원
Research Interests
- 의사결정의 신경과학, 뉴로이미징, 신경경제학, 의사결정, 사회적 상호작용
Publications
- 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
