I am a fifth-year graduate student and PhD candidate in Brain and Cognitive Science at the University of Rochester, with an anticipated graduation date in Summer 2011.  I am a member of the Center for Visual Science, working with Krystel Huxlin and David Knill on the evaluation of a new method of visual rehabilitation following cortical blindness due to damage in primary visual cortex. 

According to Huxlin et al., patients are able to resume normal thresholds of motion-range discrimination at trained locations in their impaired visual fields, so we are testing whether they also improve in determining direction of heading from optic flow patterns, in which information is presented to the entire visual field simultaneously.  We will also determine the spatial distribution of information use for perceiving optic flow in untrained individuals with cortical blindness, as well as adults with normal vision.

The research methodologies I use include mathematical and computational modeling and behavioral methods, which I have applied to projects in eye and hand movements, visual rehabilitation, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.

Updated October 2010