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Jinhan Park is a post-doctoral researcher in the Rehabilitation of Neuroscience Laboratory. He completed his doctoral degree in the department of applied physiology and kinesiology at the University of Florida. His research program investigates how neural oscillations shape pain perception, motor control, and cognitive function across the lifespan and in clinical populations. Using high-density electroencephalography (HD-EEG) and advanced analytic pipelines he has developed, he aims to identify oscillatory biomarkers that improve pain assessment and aid in the early detection of neurodegenerative disorders. This work is motivated by a critical clinical challenge: aging worsens pain sensitivity and complicates accurate assessment, especially in individuals with cognitive impairment (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies) or abnormal sensory processing (e.g., autism spectrum disorder). In these groups, reliance on self-report often leads to underdiagnosis and undertreatment. His long-term goal is to develop non-invasive, cost-effective EEG biomarkers that improve diagnostic accuracy and guide interventions for the clinical populations.