Curriculum
Vitae: Marc Pomplun
January 2002 to present:
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA. Director of the Visual Attention Lab. Main research topics: saccadic selectivity, visual attention in stereo vision, motion perception, gaze-controlled interfaces.
Since
December 2003 also Adjunct Assistant
Professor in the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems at
Boston
September 2000 to December 2001:
Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science and the Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, Canada. Supervisor: Prof. John K. Tsotsos. Main research topics: a neural model of attention, simulation of visual search with an active stereo-camera system, motion patterns in optical flow fields.
August 1998 to August 2000:
Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada. Supervisor: Prof. Eyal M. Reingold. Main research topics: selectivity of eye movements, gaze-contingent displays, quantitative modeling and simulation of active visual search.
October 1994 to June 1998:
Ph.D. (Dr. rer.nat.) in Computer Science in the Neuroinformatics Group, Technical Faculty, University of Bielefeld, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Helge Ritter. Title of dissertation: “Analysis and Models of Eye Movements in Comparative Visual Search” Grade: with highest honors (summa cum laude). Awarded “Best Dissertation at the University of Bielefeld in 1998”
August 1992 to September 1994:
Diplom
(equivalent to M.Sc.) in Computer Science at the University of Bielefeld,
Germany. Minor in physics. Main focus on eye-movement recording, artificial
neural networks, image processing, and robotics. Title of master’s thesis:
“Distribution of Attention in Ambiguous Pictures”. Supervisors: Prof. Helge
Ritter and Prof. Boris M. Velichkovsky. Grade:
“sehr gut” (A)
October
1990 to
July 1992:
Vordiplom (equivalent to B.Sc.) in Computer Science at the University of
Bielefeld, Germany.