Education

• B.S. in Computer Science, Korea National Open University (2018–2022)

Research Intersets

• Theoretical consciousness studies
• Embodied and ecological approaches to consciousness
• Temporal recurrent environment–body causal interaction
• Biological and developmental constraints
• Affect, self-relevance, and decision-making
• Philosophy and methodology of scientific explanation

Preprints

• Consciousness and Cognitive Architecture

  • (Primary) Yoon, H.-E. (Selly). (2026, February 24). The Recurrent Causal-Process Theory of Consciousness: Minimal Causal Agency under Biological Constraints. SSRN. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6680038

  • Yoon, H.-E. (Selly). (2026, April 26). The Hierarchical Preservation Model of Decision-Making: Self-Relevance Encoding across Survival, Meaning, and Lineage–Collective Preservation. SSRN. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6667120

  • Yoon, H.-E. (Selly). (2026, May 3). The Essential Definition of Intelligence: Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of the Survival Domain. SSRN. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6698958

• Scientific Methodology

• • Yoon, H.-E. (Selly). (2026, June 15). Why Scientific Problems Persist: Formalization, Abstraction, and Teleological Description as Methodological Constraints. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20739988

• Computational Architecture

  • Yoon, H.-E. (Selly). (2026, January 26). Hexa ISA: A Multi-Valued Instruction Set Architecture for Confidence-Aware and Approximate Computation. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18372764

• Conference Presentation

  • Yoon, H.-E. (Selly). (2026). UBCAT: Minimal Causal Agency under Biological Constraints via Recurrent Sensory–Interoceptive Loop Closure. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Santiago, Chile. Poster P1-049.

Experience

• Filecoin IDC SE, 2021.09 – 2022.08
• Atlassian Partners DevOps, 2023.01 – 2024.05

• Independent Researcher   —   April 2025 – Present

  • Theoretical modeling of consciousness based on recurrent causal processes, biological constraints, and environment-mediated interaction
  • Computational representation of theoretically derived constraints
  • Methodological analysis of formalization, abstraction, scale transition, and teleological description in scientific explanation

Research And Technical Competencies

• Formal and computational representation of theoretical structures
• Systems-level and process-oriented analysis
• Constraint-based reasoning and model construction
• Critical analysis of conceptual assumptions
• Complex problem formulation and independent research design
• Interdisciplinary theoretical synthesis
• Technical documentation and structured analysis

Technical And Computational Skills

• Programming and Web Technologies

JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Java, Groovy, Git

• Systems and Infrastructure

Linux, DevOps, hardware–software integration, systems monitoring, process automation, incident response, infrastructure troubleshooting, VMware, Atlassian Suite, Wireshark

Certification

• Network Management Engineer (Level 2), Korea ICT Qualifications Association (2019.12)