Upcoming Thesis Defenses
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Past Thesis Defenses
2024
March 19, 2024
Thesis Defense: Brandon Ruszala, Biomedical Engineering (Advisor: Marc Schieber)
Interfacing with the Cortical Reach-to-Grasp Network using Low-Amplitude Intracortical Microstimulation
February 1, 2024
Thesis Defense: Ashley Clark, BCS Graduate Student (Advisor: Martina Poletti)
Eye movement and eccentricity driven modulations of visual acuity and crowding across the central fovea
March 4, 2024
BCS/MSTP PhD Thesis Defense: Emily Isenstein, Graduate Student (Advisor: Duje Tadin)
A Multimodal Approach to Studying Visual-Somatosensory Integration in Autism
2023
November 29, 2023
Thesis Defense: Emily Przysinda, Neuroscience PhD Graduate Student (Advisors: Ed Lalor & David Dodell-Feder)
Social processing and underlying language deficits in schizophrenia during naturalistic video viewing
November 28, 2023
Thesis Defense: Brian Xu, BCS PhD Graduate Student (Advisor: Greg DeAngelis)
Eyes in Motion: Computational Principles and Neural Basis of Motion and Depth Perception by a Moving Observer
September 27, 2023
Thesis Defense: Hayden Scott, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Neural Tuning in High-Dimensional Stimulus Spaces
Advisor: Adam Snyder
July 18, 2023
Thesis Defense: Ying Lin, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Perceptual Decision-Making: Building on the Classic and Embracing Novel paradigms with Age-Related Insights
Advisor: Duje Tadin
July 5, 2023
Thesis Defense: Zhen Chen, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Flexible Neural Codes in Early Olfactory System at Multiple Timescales
Advisors: Ralf Haefner and Krishnan Padmanabhan
April 24, 2023
Thesis Defense: Zhetuo Zhao, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Active Space-Time Encoding
Advisor: Michele Rucci
March 22, 2023
CVS Thesis Defense: Jiakai Lyu, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Wide-field Wavefront Control for Virtual Reality and Peripheral Vision
Advisor: Geunyoung Yoon
January 26, 2023
CVS Thesis Defense: Tyler Godat, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Functional Imaging and Classification of Retinal Ganglion Cells in the Living Primate Eye
Advisor: David Williams
2022
September 14, 2022
Sabyasachi Shivkumar, Brain & Cognitive Sciences / Computer Science, University of Rochester
Signatures of Suboptimality and Causal Inference in Perceptual Decisions
Advisors: Ralf Haefner and Chenliang Xu
July 28, 2022
Meng-Huan Wu, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
Knowledge in the Human Brain: Structured to Allow Easy Access for Subsequent Tasks
Advisors: Robert Jacobs / Rajeev Raizada
July 5, 2022
Joseph German, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
Explaining the Flexible Use of Conceptual Knowledge in Human Cognition and Runtime Learning
Advisors: Robert Jacobs / Len Schubert