Research & Exploration
Research / Behavioral neuroscience
Campus Core
Stanford CNV-X · June 8–19, 2026
In our behavioral neuroscience group, we developed Campus Core: a caffeine-free product concept for student athletes. My assigned research covered creatine, electrolytes, flavors, colors, and possible interactions between ingredients.
We brought that work into a team presentation with a proposed product format, packaging, and evaluation plan. Alongside the capstone, I learned about neuroimaging, clinical psychiatry, volition, and impulse control.
Campus Core is a student proposal. The mockups show our idea; the project did not manufacture a product or establish clinical efficacy.
Research / Behavioral science
What happens after an AI conversation?
Brain and Machine Cognition Lab, Korea University · Summer 2026
At BMCL, I joined research seminars and developed a bilingual behavioral pilot on emotional framing and later choice. I asked whether supportive, neutral, or critical AI-style responses might be followed by different changes in emotion and decision-making.
I connected a conversation task with before-and-after emotion measures and a delay-discounting task. I used fixed, prewritten responses to keep the three conditions consistent.
What this pilot can tell us
Three completed participant records were combined with nine synthetic records to test the analysis workflow. This is a study-design and analysis demonstration, not evidence of a population-level effect. My next steps focus on alternative explanations and a stronger future study.
Reading / Ongoing
Neuroscience Journal Club
Stanford Medicine · Selected participant · September 2026–May 2027
I was selected for the Neuroscience Journal Club, a virtual program bringing high school students and Stanford scientists together to discuss neuroscience papers. The scheduled year runs from September 2026 through May 2027.
I am continuing to practice the steps that matter in research: identifying a question, understanding the method, and separating a result from the interpretation built around it.
Research / Earlier school project
Caffeine and students’ academic performance
School research presentation · Richard Kim & Peter Kim
With Richard Kim, I prepared a school project exploring caffeine consumption and academic performance. We used a self-report survey of 20 students to ask about their caffeine use and study experiences.
The presentation records our research question and survey method. A small, self-reported survey can describe students’ experiences; it cannot isolate caffeine’s causal effect on academic performance.
Details regarding methodologies, participant criteria, and preliminary objectives will be updated as the project scope is finalized.