Summary
Jonghwan Lee is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Brain Science at Brown University who leads leelab.ai, bridging medical photonics, neural engineering, and AI to create high-resolution optical tools for measuring neural activity and cerebral blood flow. With a Ph.D. in Neural Engineering from Seoul National University and over nine years of academic leadership, he has progressed from Harvard Medical School research fellow to developing Biomedical Optics and Neuroengineering programs at Brown. His work uniquely blends hands-on optical instrumentation and computational methods, translating micrometer-scale imaging advances into scalable research platforms. Early experience building high-performance web databases in the Republic of Korea Army also gives him uncommon full-stack systems perspective for an experimental neuroscientist.
9 years of coding experience