
Seowung Leem, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral associate and computational neuroscientist at the LB3 Lab. He earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Korea University and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Florida. His research examines how emotion is represented in human neural systems and which theory of emotion best accounts for human emotional experience and expression. Specifically, he investigates how neural representations elicited by emotional stimuli are organized into high-dimensional manifolds in latent space, as well as whether and how the characteristics of these manifolds change over time. Drawing on his engineering background, he applies complex computational models, including modern artificial intelligence, to address these questions. In addition, he participates in interdisciplinary research exploring how artificial intelligence can support novel research paradigms in psychophysiology.