He is also affiliated with the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior. He has won the Vilas Associate Award for his applied topological research (persistent homology) to medical imaging and the Editor's Award for best paper published in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Dr. Chung received a Ph.D. in statistics from McGill University. His main research area is computational neuroanatomy, concentrating on the methodological development required for quantifying and contrasting anatomical shape variations in both normal and clinical populations at the macroscopic level using various mathematical, statistical, and computational techniques.