Dr. Clair (Min-Kyung) Hong serves as a post-doctoral research scholar for the NELL. She also collaborated with the NELL while completing her Ph.D. in Neuroscience. As a Vanderbilt graduate student, she assisted Dr. Lisa Fazio in the Building Knowledge Lab, which uses neuropsychological foundations to improve classroom learning. She then became a post-doctoral research fellow for the Computational Memory Lab under Dr. Sean Polyn, where she helped examine EEG data related to recent memory retrieval. For this assignment, she was supervised by the NELL's own PI, Dr. Katherine Aboud, and they have since collaborated on numerous publications together.

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Dr. Hong completed her undergraduate degree at Duke University, where she majored in Psychology and minored in Economics. She participated in several labs as an undergraduate researcher, first working in the Rubin Noetics Laboratory and investigating neural networks and episodic memory retrieval with fMRI data. She was then invited to Duke's Laboratory of Neurogenetics, where she retrieved and compiled data regarding physiological, autonomic, and muscular responses. Furthermore, she participated in the Cabeza Lab that explored source memory between younger and older adults.

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As the NELL increasingly collects EEG and fMRI data on transcranial stimulation and language learning, Dr. Hong continues to present and publish high-quality research. Her most recent pre-print on naturalistic language comprehension can be accessed here.