Current Members of the Visual Attention Lab

 

Marc Pomplun, Associate Professor
Director of the Visual Attention Lab

Research interests: Human vision, computer vision, human-computer interaction

E-mail: marc AT cs.umb.edu

Homepage: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~marc/

 

Nick Wang, Ph.D. Student

Research interests: Eye movements, reading, latent semantic analysis, transitional probability, semantic effects on scene viewing, estimating visual complexity, semantic transparency

E-mail: hchengwang AT gmail.com

Homepage: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~hcwang/

 

 

Farahnaz Ahmed Wick, Ph.D. Student

Research interests: Distortion of visual-perceptual space by post-saccadic error, space perception, local vs. global processing in mental rotation

E-mail: farahnaz AT gmail.com

Homepage: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~fwick/

 

 

Nada Attar, Ph.D. Student

Research interests: Human-computer interaction, handheld interfaces, dyslexia, pupil size as indicator of cognitive load

E-mail: nada_h_a AT yahoo.com

 

 

 

Luke Eglington, Undergraduate Student

Research interests: Visual attention, visual working memory, pupil size as indicator of cognitive load

E-mail: lukeeglington1 AT gmail.com

 

 

 

Simon Tran, Undergraduate Student

Research interests: local vs. global processing in mental rotation

E-mail: zck1022 AT hotmail.com

 

 

Erik Young, Undergraduate Student

Research interests: local vs. global processing in mental rotation

E-mail: erik_young AT me.com

 

 

Alumni of the Visual Attention Lab

 

Tyler Garaas, Ph.D.

Research interests: Neural modeling of human vision, eye movements, saccadic adaptation, perceptual space, inspection time and intelligence, robotics, visual search

Now research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs.

 

 

Alex Hwang, Ph.D.

Research interests: Eye movements, visual attention, visual search, computational modeling, semantic guidance of visual inspection, computer vision, expertise and visual learning

Now post-doctoral fellow at Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard University.

 

 

Mei Xiao, Ph.D.

Research interests: Eye movements, visual attention, 3D human-computer interfaces, multimodal interfaces

Now research associate at the Sun Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics at the University of Calgary, Canada.

 

 

Frank Marino, M.S.

Research interests: Modeling of human visual processing, active computer vision, artificial neural networks, speed perception 

 

 

 

 

 

Shantanu Inamdar, M.S.

Research interests: Visual Attention, working memory, human-computer interaction 

Now software engineer at Grand Circle Travel, Boston.

 

 

 

Emily Higgins, B.S.

Research interests: Visual attention, eye movements, visual search, color vision, computational modeling, synesthesia, development of visual processing in infants

Now graduate student in Cognitive Science at University of California San Diego.

 

 

Henry Lo, B.S.

Research interests: Visual attention, eye movements, visual search, computation of visual error by the human visual system, inspection time and learning

Now graduate student in Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Boston.

 

 

Richard Pepe, B.A.

Research interests: Inspection time and learning, visual attention, eye movements, memory suppression