Summary
Hyemin Han is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Alabama with nine years of academic experience and a PhD from Stanford. He leads interdisciplinary research probing neural mechanisms of moral development, growth mindset, and social-emotional adjustment in schools using neuroimaging, psychological interventions, and computational simulation. As program coordinator he has shaped graduate training in educational psychology while maintaining an active research lab that blends theory, methods, and applied school-based questions. His background spans ethics education, astronomy, and engineering—bringing uncommon breadth from KAIST and Seoul National University to questions about learning and morality. Prior industry experience building machine-learning visual inspection systems gives him practical skills in applied data methods that inform his computational approaches. Colleagues describe him as a methodologically adventurous scholar who translates neuroscience into actionable educational insights.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Science, Technology and Society, MS, Science, Technology and Society at 한국과학기술원 / KAIST
BA, Ethics Education, BA, Ethics Education at 서울대학교 / Seoul National University
PhD, Education, PhD, Education at Stanford University
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Catalan