Currently, he holds a joint appointment as a Postdoctoral Associate at the John B. Pierce Laboratory and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He investigates the interrelation between chronic pain and obesity using structural and functional brain imaging. During his PhD, he used real-time fMRI neurofeedback to investigate the brain plasticity after self-regulation of motor brain areas during motor imagery tasks. Dr. Makary is an executive committee member for the OHBM student and postdoc special interest group. Dr. Makary has honored with the 2017 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Engineering among Kyung Hee University graduates. He also received several merit conference paper awards including the Best Oral Presentation Award, ICCMR’15; Merit Abstract Travel Stipend Award, OHBM’17; and Geographic Finalist, IEEE EMBC’17.