Alumni
Former Graduate Students, 1990-Present
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*Left with Masters
2023
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Gary Ge
Kevin Parker / Jannick Rolland
Reverberant Elastography and Speckle Analysis for Brain Characterization
MD Program, URMC
Tyler Godat
Functional Imaging and Classification of Retinal Ganglion Cells in the Living Primate Eye
Jiakai Lyu
Geunyoung Yoon
Wide-field Wavefront Control for Virtual Reality and Peripheral Vision
Shyanthony Synigal
Zhetuo Zhao
Active Space-Time Encoding
2022
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Udaysankar Chockanathan
Variations in neuronal population activity across behaviors, brain regions, and disease
Emily Crosier
Ian DeAndrea-Lazarus
Joseph German
Robert Jacobs / Len Schubert
Explaining the Flexible Use of Conceptual Knowledge in Human Cognition and Runtime Learning
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
Khang Huynh
Jennifer Hunter
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Carol Jew
Rajeev Raizada
Postdoctoral Associate, Jackson Laboratory
Elizabeth Saionz
Sabyasachi Shivkumar
Ralf Haefner / Chenliang Xu
Signatures of Suboptimality and Causal Inference in Perceptual Decisions
Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
Scott Will
Optical Engineer, Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)
Meng-Huan Wu
Robert Jacobs / Rajeev Raizada
Microsoft
2021
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Ankani Chattoraj
NVDIA
Shanna Coop
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Adam Danz
Sr. Software Engineer, MathWorks
Wesley Farriss
Optical Scientist, Polaris Sensors, Inc.
Annette French
Perceptual Processes Underlying Depth Judgement of Moving Object During Self-Motion
Janis Intoy
The Role of Eye Movement in High-Acuity Monocular and Binocular Vision
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester
Optical Engineer, Apple
Kathryn-Mary Wakim-Takaki
Postdoctoral Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Linghao Xu*
Models of Approximate Inference in Vision
Einstein College of Medicine
2020
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Optical Engineer, IDEX Health & Science, LLC
Andres Guevara Torres
Research Scientist, Ovitz
Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley School of Optometry
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Analytics & Insights Project Lead, MilliporeSigma
Aaron Michalko
Optical Payload Center of Excellence
Daniel Nikolov
Optical Engineer, University of Rochester
Research Engineer, Novateur Research Solutions
Brad Mahon
Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Rochester Medical Center
Nick Takaki
Synopsys
Celeste Kidd
Data Scientist, Disney Streaming Services
Di Xu
Facebook
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Houston
2019
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Research Assistant, University of Rochester
Matt Overlan
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Scott Paine
L3Harris
Elizabeth Shay
Brad Mahon
Jessica Cantlon
Jessica Cantlon
Senior Research And Development Engineer, Synopsys' Optical Solutions Group
Sarah Walters
Jennifer Hunter
David Williams
David Williams
Kaitlin Wozniak
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester
Geunyoung Yoon
Amy Lerner
Amy Lerner
Engineer II, Design at Bausch + Lomb
Senior Design Engineer, ASML
2018
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Daniel Brooks
Jonathan Ellis
Wayne Knox
Wayne Knox
Brad Mahon
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester Medical Center
Medical Device Engineer, Bausch+Lomb Inc.
Jennifer Hunter
Optical systems engineer, Melles Griot: a Unit of IDEX Health & Science
Alex Iacchetta
Maxar Radiant Solutions
Postdoctoral Fellow, Whasil Lee lab, URMC
Data Science Consultant, Cognitive & Computational Neuroscientist, Everything Set
Data Scientist, Scopus IT
Daniel Savage
Kim Schauder
Louisa Bennetto
Duje Tadin
Duje Tadin
Biologist, FDA
2017
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Matt Bergkoetter
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Dick Aslin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ophthamology, University of Rochester
Zack DeSantis
Lockheed-Martin
Robert Jacobs
Jiebo Luo
Jiebo Luo
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Berkeley Fahrenthold
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ophthamology, University of Rochester
Brad Mahon
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Washington
Associate Director of Translational Research, EyeCRO
Stephanie Syc-Mazurek
2016
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Dick Aslin
Lead Data Scientist, Empiric Health
Shiona Biswas
Lin Gan
Jinxin Huang
Andrew Law
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Rochester
Dustin Moore
Maxar Technologies
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
Ben Hayden
Freelance Science and Medical Writer
2015
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Ed Freedman
Product Scientist, Indeed.com
Daphne Bavelier
Duje Tadin
Duje Tadin
Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Alfredo Dubra
David Williams
David Williams
Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow, Associated Retinal Consultants, P.C.
Gary Paige
Bill O'Neill
Bill O'Neill
Director, Auditory Perceptual Encoding Laboratory, Boys Town National Research Hospital
Ben Hayden
Data Science Lead/Manager, Klaviyo
2014
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Lin Gan
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Medical Center
Alden Jurling
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Assistant Professor, Yale University
Geunyoung Yoon
VP Vision Science at Clerio Vision, Inc.
2013
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Lead AI Scientist, Covera Health
Visual Psychophysicist, Ora, Inc.
Lead Data Scientist, Spotify
David Knill
Business Analyst Manager, Hitachi Vantara
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Functional Measurements of Retinal Phototoxicity using Photopigment Densitometry and Adaptive Optics
Senior Optical Engineer, Optikos Corporation
Daphne Bavelier
Scientist, Charles River Analytics
Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University
2012
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
Tania Pasternak
Senior Medical Director, Peloton Advantage
Staff Scientist, NIH
Abbie Tippie Watnik
Naval Research Laboratory
Rahul Yadav
Geunyoung Yoon
2011
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Optical Scientist, Oculus Research
Geunyoung Yoon
Research Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology / Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, Biological Structure, University of Washington
Tom Zielinski
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
2010
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Paul Scherrer Institut
Daphne Bavelier
Head of Fuxi AI Lab, NetEase
Lana Nagy*
Geunyoung Yoon
Higher order spherical aberration interactions to increase depth of focus and retinal image quality for presbyopic corrections
Research Scientist, Oculus/Facebook
2009
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Faculty, Western Connecticut State University
Alex Pouget
Assistant Professor, Hamilton College
Gary Paige
Bill O'Neill
Bill O'Neill
Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford Medicine
2008
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Greg Brady
Space Telescope Science Institute
Daphne Bavelier
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
David Knill
Program Officer, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Jelena Jovancevic Misic
Mary Hayhoe
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Director, Advanced Retinal Imaging, Center for Advanced Retinal and Ocular Therapeutics
Perceptual learning of visual motion discriminations in humans with primary visual cortical (V1) damage
Assistant Director Compliance & Regulatory Affairs, IRB Operations, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Mary Hayhoe
Director, Cognitive Science Center and Associate Professor, Technical University Darmstadt
2007
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Founder & President, Gray Optics
2006
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Daeyeol Lee
Professor, Catholic Kwandong University, International St. Mary Hospital
Tania Pasternak
Senior Vice President, Director of Medical and Scientific Affairs at Dudnyk
2005
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Mary Hayhoe
Principal Scientist, Human Factors, Principia Engineering Inc.
2004
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Associate Professor, University of Houston College of Optometry
David Calkins
Associate Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine
2003
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Joseph Atkins
Sophie Deneve
Alex Pouget
Engineering Manager, Google
Charlie Duffy
Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
Michael Hanna
David Calkins
Dana Ballard
Sr Manager, Machine Learning, Amazon
Dana Ballard
Cofounder, Aibee Inc.
2002
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Charlie Duffy
Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College
Dick Aslin
Mike Weliky
Mike Weliky
Senior Staff Scientist, Cognitive Development and Neuroimaging Lab, University of Minnesota
Daphne Bavelier
Professor & Director, Center for Biomedical and Brain Imaging, University of Delaware
2001
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Dana Ballard
Professor, Rochester Inst. of Technology
Mary Hayhoe
Professor, University of Connecticut
2000
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
William Page
Charlie Duffy
1999
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Professor, University of Washington
James Müller
Peter Lennie
1997
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Mary Hayhoe
Owner, Bensinger Technology
1996
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Andrea Li
Peter Lennie
Associate Professor, Queens College, CUNY
1995
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Peter Lennie
Professor, Carthage College
Mary Hayhoe
Principal Consultant - Human Factors in Context
Mary Hayhoe
Frederick Wiedman Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
1992
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Per Møller
Mary Hayhoe
Nobutoshi Sekiguchi
Dick Aslin
Director of Postdoctoral Services, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1990
Name
Advisor
Thesis
Current Position
Peter Lennie
Head, Integrated Sciences Academy; Director, Program of Color Science; Director, Munsell Color Science Laboratory; Professor, RIT