During her PhD with Ann Sefton (1994, Univ. Sydney, Australia), she contrasted neural properties of developing and damaged adult visual systems. As an NHMRC C.J. Martin Postdoctoral Fellow with Bill Merigan, then Tania Pasternak, she studied perceptual consequences of visual cortex damage in animals and humans, before joining the Rochester faculty in 1999. Her ongoing research aims to understand how and what visual functions can be restored after damage to the adult visual system. Krystel holds 8 patents, multiple grants from NEI, NY state and industry, and received the Robert McCormick Special Scholars Award and the Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award from Research to Prevent Blindness for her work. In 2013, she joined the Neurologic Vision Rehabilitation Advisory Committee of the Rochester Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired, and restarted the Rochester Chapter of the Society of Neuroscience, serving as its inaugural president. This Chapter, which unites neuroscience interests locally, is now central to the University’s Neuroscience Graduate Program’s community outreach.

Krystel is passionate about training the next generation of vision scientists and clinician-scientists, from undergraduates to junior faculty. She is a long-standing member of the University of Rochester’s Medical Scientist Training Program and Ophthalmology Residency admission committees, and the Neuroscience Graduate Program Executive Committee. Finally, Krystel looks forward to drawing on her experience organizing conferences and symposium. She was on the Program Committee for the OSA’s Fall Vision Meeting (2014-2019), first as an Advisor, then the Chair of OSA’s Clinical Vision Sciences Technical group. She co-organized multiple symposia at venues ranging from VSS, Rochester’s Center for Visual Science, and the International Neuropsychological Symposium.

Shin’ya’s research focuses on visual motion perception, material perception, time perception, haptics, and multisensory integration. He is also interested in leveraging vision science for innovation of media technologies. He was/is on the editorial boards of Journal of Vision (from 2007), Vision Research (from 2008 to 2017), and Multisensory Research (from 2017). He was President of Vision Society of Japan (from 2014 to 2018), and is Member of Science Council of Japan (from 2017). He served as Rank Prize Lecturer at European Conference on Visual Perception 2017.

At NYU, Michael has served as Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Cognition & Perception off and on for over 20 years. He has been a senior editor for Vision Research and on the editorial boards of Visual Neuroscience, Multisensory Research and, currently, Journal of Vision.

He is an author of some 120+ papers and chapters, and co-editor of 3 edited collections. He has worked in a wide variety of research areas including sensory cue integration (including multisensory work involving vision, touch, proprioception and audition), perception of depth, surface material properties and texture, perceptual decision-making and visual control of movement (reaching and saccades). Much of this work involves empirical behavioral work coupled with computational models, including both ideal-observer, Bayesian models as well as sub-optimal heuristic models of human performance. Recent theoretical contributions include new models of reaction time in discrimination experiments and of cortical adaptation.

Other research interests include ensemble encoding, reading and dyslexia, the statistical properties of the fMRI signal, and work on computational models for visual prosthetics.

Dr. Boynton received a PhD in Cognitive Science in 1994 under the supervision of John Foley at U.C. Santa Barbara after obtaining a degree in Mathematics at U.C. San Diego (1987) and a Master’s degree (1989) in Mathematics at U.C. Santa Barbara. He then worked as a postdoc with Dr. David Heeger at Stanford University where he did his early work with fMRI. In 1998 he took a position as a faculty member in Systems Neuroscience at the Salk Institute in La Jolla until 2008 when he joined Ione Fine and Scott Murray to form the venerable Vision and Cognition group in the Psychology Department at the University of Washington.

Dr. Boynton served as an editor for Vision Research from 2005 – 2015, serves an editor for the Journal of Vision from 2007 to the present, and has served as a permanent and adhoc member of various NIH study sections, including CVP. He has a deep interest in mentorship and teaching, and has been a co-organizer of the Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Computational Neuroscience: Vision since 2008. In 2009 he was elected as a member of the Society for Experimental Psychologists.

He has been a regular member of VSS from the beginning and has served as an abstract reviewer, Young Investigator Award panel member, Poster award panel member, and Travel Award panel member.

There she was inspired by the traditional and Marrian approaches to vision and subsequently took up computational vision for her PhD research with Tommy Poggio in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. She earned an MD from Harvard Medical School, before doing postdoctoral research as a Wellcome Trust Vision Research Fellow at Oxford University. In 1991, she moved to Newcastle University, where she co-founded the Institute of Neuroscience in 2003, serving as its co-Director until 2014.

Hurlbert’s research focuses on colour perception and its role in visual cognition, with an emphasis on understanding colour constancy through computational models and psychophysics, and the links between colour, illumination and affect. Her research interests in applied areas include digital image processing and lighting, machine learning for biomedical image analysis, and the interplay between vision science and art. She actively promotes public engagement with science, through multiple programmes and exhibitions, and devised an interactive installation at the National Gallery, London, for its 2014 summer exhibition Making Colour.

Hurlbert has substantial experience of conference organising, including stand-alone colour vision conferences, and symposia within ECVP, the British Association Annual Festival of Science, and other conferences. She has regularly attended VSS since its inception, acted as abstract reviewer since 2010, and served twice on the Young Scientist Award Committee. She is former Chair of the Colour Group (GB), member of the Visiting Committee for Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and Scientist Trustee of the National Gallery (London), and currently an editorial board member of Current Biology and Journal of Vision and member of the Scientific Consultative Group of the National Gallery and the Optoelectronics Committee of the Rank Prize Funds.

Rich also holds a Joint Appointment in the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and an Adjunct Professor position at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. Rich’s science has focused on eye movements and visual attention, and includes electrophysiological studies of the superior colliculus, cerebellum, basal ganglia and cerebral cortex, psychophysical studies of visual motion perception and visual attention, and computational modeling. His recent work in monkeys and mice has examined the interactions between cortical and subcortical brain regions during visual selective attention and perceptual decision-making.

After postdoctoral training with Fred Miles and Bob Wurtz at the National Eye Institute, he joined the faculty of the Salk Institute in 1997 and returned to the National Eye Institute in 2011.

Rich currently serves on the Editorial Boards for Journal of Vision and Annual Review of Vision Science, is a co-chair for the Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements, and a member of the VSS Abstract Review Committee; he was also a Senior Editor for Vision Research. He has served on numerous grant review panels, was a member of the Admissions Committee and Executive Committee in the UCSD Neurosciences Department, served as a chair of the International Workshop on Visual Attention, and has authored several review articles on eye movements and visual attention, including the chapter ‘Eye Movements’ in the graduate textbook Fundamental Neuroscience. His work has been recognized through several awards, including McKnight Scholar and Technological Innovation awards.

The research program builds on the premise that any deep understanding of perception and cognition requires studying their key processes in observers that actively behave, exploring and manipulating their environment.

After a Diploma in psychology, Martin completed his doctorate at the University of Potsdam in 2007 with highest distinction (summa cum laude). For his dissertation on the generation of microscopic eye movements, Martin received the Heinz Heckhausen Award of the German Psychological Society. He spent formative postdoc years at Université Paris Descartes, New York University and Aix-Marseille Université, investigating links between eye movements, attention, and perception.

In 2012, he established an Emmy Noether junior research group, working on attention in active vision at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin. In 2018, he was appointed Heisenberg professorship for Experimental Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he is now a full professor. He has since also served as an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Vision. Martin is a founding member of Berlin’s Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence, a transdisciplinary research center investigating the principles underlying all forms of intelligence. His research is funded by the German Research foundation (DFG) and a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant, studying how visual action shapes active vision.

Paola was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship and returned to Italy in 2013, where she joined the University of Pisa as assistant professor of physiology (she became associate professor in 2019). Paola’s lab is primarily funded by a ERC (European Research Council) Starting grant. They study how visual processing is shaped by multimodal context, which includes upcoming actions and predictions based on stimulus history. Their studies involve human volunteers, with a focus on neurodiversity. They use a combination of ultra-high field functional Magnetic Resonance imaging, psychophysics, eye-tracking and pupillometry.

After completing her Ph.D, MiYoung joined the Computational and Functional Vision Lab at the University of Southern California as a postdoctoral research associate. Following her time at USC, MiYoung completed another two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School. Between 2014 and 2020, MiYoung served on the faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Through a multidisciplinary approach that combines psychophysics, computational modeling, eye tracking, brain and retinal imaging techniques, MiYoung’s research is dedicated to unraveling how the human visual system deals with sensory impairments. To this end, her work primarily focuses on understanding statistical properties of the visual world under degraded viewing conditions, the cortical representation of degraded visual information, and the subsequent modifications in perceptual and cognitive processing. Her past and ongoing research projects cover a broad spectrum of topics, including brain adaptability following central vision loss, information processing in peripheral vision, perceptual and cortical changes induced by prolonged contrast deprivation, and binocular interactions in amblyopic vision. Recent efforts have also delved into understanding the impact of ganglion cell pathology on spatial vision and exploring the effects of degraded visual inputs on oculomotor strategies. Therefore, her interdisciplinary research program integrates state-of-the-art research techniques and theoretical frameworks to bridge the gap between fundamental vision science and clinical applications. Her research has been funded by the NIH/National Eye Institute, the Eye-Sight Foundation of Alabama, and Research to Prevent Blindness.

MiYoung frequently serves on the NIH Scientific Review Panel. Furthermore, she has been an active member of VSS, serving on the Abstract Review Committee, Travel Awards Review Committee, and the Meet-the-Professors panel.