Biography
Kangjoo Lee, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University, where she directs the Computational Neuroimaging of Brain Disorders (CNBD) Laboratory. Her multidisciplinary research integrates neuroimaging, computational neuroscience, and psychiatry to advance translational biomarkers for brain and mental health disorders.
She received her B.Sc. in Radiological Science from Yonsei University in South Korea (2009) and her M.Sc. in Bio and Brain Engineering from KAIST in South Korea (2011), followed by post–M.S. research training in multimodal neuroimaging and biomedical signal processing. She earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from McGill University in Montreal, Canada (2019), and completed postdoctoral training in radiology, biomedical imaging, and psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, USA, where she later served as an Associate Research Scientist until 2025.
Her research focuses on human brain-state dynamics, functional connectivity, and the development of mechanistic neurobehavioral biomarkers for mental illness, with publications in leading journals such as Biological Psychiatry, PLoS Biology, and NeuroImage. Dr. Lee is an active leader in the international neuroimaging community, particularly through the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), where she has held multiple leadership roles in program organization, science dissemination, and open science.