He received his Ph.D. at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea. He started his postgraduate work at the Brain Disease Research Center, Ajou University Medical School, South Korea, and completed his postdoctoratal studies in Dr. Dora M. Kovacs’ laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was appointed Assistant Professor in 2009. He was awarded a fellowship from the John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation in 2004.