Core members are York Faculty intensively involved in the program and vision research. Core members devote at least 80% of their research to VISTA-related topics.
Doug Crawford
Distinguished Professor, YRC Tier 1Areas of Interest
Visuospatial Memory; Eye Movements; Visuomotor Control
School AffiliationDept of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
jdc@yorku.ca
Richard Wildes
Associate Professor, YRC Tier 1Areas of Interest
Spatiotemporal analysis of visual information; motion analysis; binocular vision
School AffiliationDept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Contact Information
wildes@cse.yorku.ca
Robert Allison
Professor, YRC Tier 2, CVR DirectorAreas of Interest
Virtual reality; stereopsis; 3D film
School AffiliationDept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Contact Information
allison@cse.yorku.ca
Jacob Beck
Associate Professor, YRC Tier 2Areas of Interest
Philosophical theories of perception; cognition; representation; consciousness
School AffiliationDept of Philosophy, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
Contact Information
jbeck@yorku.ca
Michael Brown
Professor, CRC Tier 1Areas of Interest
Computer vision; image processing; computer graphics
School AffiliationDept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Contact Information
mbrown@eecs.yorku.ca
Marcus Brubaker
Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest
Computer vision; machine learning; computational biology
School AffiliationDept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Contact Information
mab@eecs.yorku.ca
Mary Bunch
Assistant Professor, CRC Tier 2Areas of Interest
Interdisciplinary and collaborative critical disability, feminist, queer studies and critical theory, research creation and arts-based methodologies
School AffiliationDept. of Cinema & Media Arts, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Contact Information
bunch@yorku.ca
Patrick Cavanagh
Senior Research FellowAreas of Interest
Visual neuroscience and perception; motion perception, spatial vision, color vision, attentional processes, object recognition, links between art and brain function.
School AffiliationGlendon Campus, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
patcav1@yorku.ca
Gene Cheung
Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest
Graph Signal Processing; 3D Imaging
School AffiliationDept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Contact Information
genec@yorku.ca
Taylor Cleworth
Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest
Sensorimotor; Posture and Gait; Neuromechanics; Virtual Reality; Aging
School AffiliationSchool of Kinesiology & Health Science
Contact Information
tclewort@yorku.ca
Patricio Davila
Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest
Information visualization, critical visualization practice, public installation, interaction design, visual design
School AffiliationCinema and Media Arts, School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Contact Information
pdavila@yorku.ca
Konstantinos Derpanis
Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest
Computer vision with emphasis on motion analysis and human motion understanding, and related aspects in image processing and machine learning
School AffiliationDept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Contact Information
kosta@yorku.ca
Shital Desai
Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest
Inclusive design solutions in assistive adaptive technologies for children and people with accessibility needs including older adults and persons with cognitive impairments.
School AffiliationDept of Design, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Contact Information
desais@yorku.ca
James Elder
Professor, YRC Tier 1Areas of Interest
Computer vision; attentive vision systems; single-view 3D reconstruction
School AffiliationDept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering & Dept of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
jelder@yorku.ca
Caitlin Fisher
Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest
Future of narrative; interactive storytelling; interactive cinema; Augmented Reality
School AffiliationDept of Cinema & Media Arts, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Contact Information
caitlin@yorku.ca
Erez Freud
Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest
Object recognition; Visuomotor control; Neuroimaging
School AffiliationDept of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
efreud@yorku.ca
Laurence Harris
Professor, YRC Tier 1Areas of Interest
Multisensory; vestibular; psychophysics; orientation and gravity
School AffiliationDept of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
harris@yorku.ca
Denise Henriques
ProfessorAreas of Interest
Sensorimotor control; Eye, head, limb coordination; Vision, haptics and kinesthesia
School AffiliationSchool of Kinesiology & Health Science, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
deniseh@yorku.ca
Michael Jenkin
ProfessorAreas of Interest
Visually guided autonomous systems; virtual reality; computer vision
School AffiliationDept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Contact Information
jenkin@cse.yorku.ca
Kohitij Kar
Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest
Primate visual perception, electrophysiology, computer vision, in-vivo opto and chemogenetic perturbation.
School AffiliationDept of Biology, Faculty of Science
Contact Information
k0h1t1j@yorku.ca
Peter Kohler
Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest
visual processing
School AffiliationDept of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
pjkohler@yorku.ca
Matthew Kyan
Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest
Biologically inspired models for learning; signal processing; knowledge-assisted visualization
School AffiliationDept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Contact Information
mkyan@cse.yorku.ca
Kevin Lande
Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest
Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Language
School AffiliationDept of Philosophy, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
Contact Information
lande@yorku.ca
Liya Ma
Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest
Cognitive control; eye movements; neurophysiology; advanced data analysis
School AffiliationDept of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
liyama@yorku.ca
Ozzy Mermut
Assistant Professor, YRC Tier 2Areas of Interest
Biophotonic and complimentary multimodal biophysical techniques; the physics of degenerative diseases; biomarkers and signaling processes in aging.
School AffiliationDept of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science
Contact Information
omermut@yorku.ca
Jonathan Michaels
Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest
Sensorimotor control; feedback control; electrophysiology; modular neural networks; brain-computer interfaces
School AffiliationDept of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
jmichae@yorku.ca
Richard Murray
Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest
Human visual perception; psychophysics; computational modelling; light, shape, surfaces
School AffiliationDept of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
rfm@yorku.ca
Regina Rini
Assistant Professor, CRC Tier 2Areas of Interest
Ethics; moral cognition; social epistemology
School AffiliationDept of Philosophy, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Contact Information
rarini@yorku.ca
Shayna Rosenbaum
Professor, YRC Tier 2Areas of Interest
Medial temporal lobe; prefrontal cortex; patient-lesion method
School AffiliationDept of Psychology, Faculty of Health & Dept of Biology, Faculty of Science
Contact Information
shaynar@yorku.ca
Jeffrey Schall
Scientific Director, York Visual Neurophysiology CentreAreas of Interest
Neural and computational decision mechanisms that guide, control and monitor behavior.
School AffiliationDept of Biology, Faculty of Science
Contact Information
schalljd@yorku.ca
Lauren Sergio
Professor, YRC Tier 1Areas of Interest
Motor control; eye-hand coordination; neurophysiology
School AffiliationSchool of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
lsergio@yorku.ca
Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari
Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest
Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Fairness, AI in health, AI in medical imaging
School AffiliationDept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Contact Information
lsk@yorku.ca
Jennifer Steeves
Professor, YRC Tier 1, Associate Dean ScienceAreas of Interest
MRI, TMS, scene perception, eye enucleation, monocular vision
School AffiliationDept of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Dept of Biology, Faculty of Science
Contact Information
steeves@yorku.ca
Dale Stevens
Associate Professor, MRI DirectorAreas of Interest
Cognitive neuroscience; cognitive aging
School AffiliationDept of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
stevensd@yorku.ca
Nikolaus Troje
Professor, CRC Tier 1Areas of Interest
Biological motion; space perception; virtual reality
School AffiliationDept of Biology, Faculty of Science
Contact Information
troje@yorku.ca
Graham Wakefield
Assistant Professor, CRC Tier 2Areas of Interest
Interactive generative art; virtual reality; augmented reality; data visualization
School AffiliationDept of Computational Arts, School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Contact Information
grrrwaaa@yorku.ca
Laurie Wilcox
Professor, YRC Tier 1Areas of Interest
Stereopsis; depth perception; 3D; displays; image quality
School AffiliationDept of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Contact Information
lwilcox@yorku.ca
Jianhong Wu
Distinguished Research Professor, NSERC Industrial ChairAreas of Interest
Delay differential equations; dynamical systems; disease modelling; data analytics
School AffiliationDept of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science
Contact Information
wujh@mathstat.yorku.ca
Joel Zylberberg
Assistant Professor, CRC Tier 2Areas of Interest
Neural Circuits; Synaptic Plasticity; Machine Learning
School AffiliationDept of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science
Contact Information
joelzy@yorku.ca
