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VISTA is breaking new ground on fundamental and applied research in the vision sciences.

Our interdisciplinary approach, spanning visual neuroscience to computer vision and beyond, will create impact through strategic collaboration with our partners from around the globe. VISTA provides important graduate, post-doctoral, and researcher funding opportunities to enable cutting-edge research, and will create knowledge and technologies that will help people live healthier, safer, and more productive lives.

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VISTA is advancing interdisciplinary vision research at York University across the following Faculties:

Faculty of

Health

Neuroscience, Kinesiology & Psychology.

Lassonde School

of Engineering

Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, AI and Machine Learning.

Faculty of

Science

Biology, Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry.

Liberal Arts &

Professional Studies

Philosophy, IT & Computational Linguistics.

Arts, Media, Performance

& Design

Disability Studies, Computational Arts, Visual Arts and Film.

vistashowcase

Neural Processes in Motor Adaptation

The Neural Processes in Visually Driven, Explicit Motor Adaptation. "It wasn’t me: External source attribution effects on hand-position esti ...

Kinesthetic Creativity in Virtual Reality

VISTA Master’s Scholarship winner, Sarah Vollmer, is the first digital arts and computer science trainee in the VISTA program. Her project s ...

Distributed Functional Cell Assemblies

Dynamic spike-field signatures of distributed functional cell assemblies. VISTA Travel Awards are available not only for Project Investigato ...

The German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders

Dr. Denise Henriques, VISTA Training Committee Lead and Core Researcher, received a VISTA Travel Award to collaborate with German researcher ...

Vision-Based Diver Robot Interactions at Depth

Lassonde School of Engineering graduate student Robert Codd-Downey received a VISTA Doctoral Scholarship in early 2017. His research is supe ...

Vection and the International Space Station

The Vection team is led by Core Researcher, Laurence Harris, and includes Core Researchers Michael Jenkin and Robert Allison from the Depart ...

opportunities

Research Grants

In 2016 York University was awarded a seven-year Canada First Research Excellence Fund grant. Funds have been allocated for research grants open to VISTA Core and Associate Members. Two Requests for Proposals will be released on an annual basis, and will fund on average three applications per call at a maximum of $50,000 per award.

Postdoctoral Fellows

The VISTA Postdoctoral Award will provide financial support to high-calibre scholars doing postdoctoral research that is aligned with the VISTA program under the supervision of a VISTA Core member or co-supervision of a Core and Associate member. The VISTA Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship will provide financial support to the highest calibre applicants.

Doctoral Entrance Award

The VISTA Entrance Award provides financial support to high-calibre scholars doing research that is aligned with the VISTA program under the supervision of a CVR-VISTA Core member or co-supervision of a Core and Associate member. This support provides funds in addition to standard York University support to attract and train leading vision researchers of tomorrow.

Masters Entrance Award

The VISTA Entrance Award provides financial support to high-calibre scholars doing research that is aligned with the VISTA program under the supervision of a CVR-VISTA Core member or co-supervision of a Core and Associate member. This support provides funds in addition to standard York University support to attract and train leading vision researchers of tomorrow.

Visiting Scholar Travel Awards

VISTA will support flight and accommodation costs for visiting scholars, students and fellows to/from eligible VISTA-affiliated academic institutions or industry partners.

Software and Hardware Prototyping

VISTA provides funds to support members in the development of a prototype that will lead to the commercialization of a product that is aligned with the VISTA mandate.

Become a VISTA Member

The VISTA Leadership Committee invites VISTA Core members to nominate York researchers for Associate membership and non-York academic colleagues in Canada for Affiliate membership.

Faculty & Staff Positions

Available job positions at VISTA include administrative support staff openings, Faculty hires and researcher opportunities within labs. Check out our job listings here!