People

Current Members

John K. Tsotsos

Role: Director
Research Areas: Computer Vision, Robotics, Human Vision, Artificial Intelligence.

Amir Rosenfeld

Role: Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Hierarchical Representations.

Mahdi Biparva

Role: PhD Candidate
Research Areas: Covert Visual Attention Modeling, Object Recognition, Deep Learning.

Paria Mehrani

Role: PhD Candidate
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Hierarchical Representation.

Serena Nath

Role: PhD Candidate
Research Areas: Computer Vision.

Amir Rasouli

Role: PhD Candidate
Research Areas: Robotics, Autonomous Driving, Active Vision.

Markus Solbach

Role: PhD Candidate
Research Areas: Active Vision, Robotics, Machine Learning.

Calden Wloka

Role: PhD Candidate
Research Areas: Early Visual Attention, Saliency Modeling.

Sang-Ah Yoo

Role: PhD Candidate
Research Areas: Visual Attention and Suppression, Visual Working Memory.

Iuliia Kotseruba

Role: Research Associate
Research Areas: Visual Attention, Cognitive Systems, Autonomous Driving.

Toni Kunic

Role: Research Associate
Research Areas: Executive Control of Visual Attention.

Omar Abid

Role: Masters Student
Research Areas: Computational Neuroscience, Neural Mechanisms of Attention.

Bao Xin Chen

Role: Masters Student
Research Areas: Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning.

Vassil Halatchev

Role: Masters Student
Research Areas: Human Robot Interaction with Assistive Technology, Virtual Reality, User Interface Design.

Raghavender Sahdev

Role: Masters Student
Research Areas: Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning.

Takeshi Saga

Role: Visiting Intern
Research Areas: Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Facial Expression Recognition.

Research Collaborators

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

  • Hans-Jochen Heinze
  • Jens-Max Hopf

Technische Universität München

  • Gordon Cheng
  • Pablo Lanillos

University of California, Berkeley

  • Ruzena Bajcsy

University of Maryland

  • Yiannis Aloimonos

University of Toronto

  • Richard Zemmel

Vanderbilt University

  • Kari Hoffman
  • Thilo Womelsdorf

York University

  • Scott Adler
  • Mazyar Fallah
  • Michael Jenkin
  • Shayna Rosenbaum
  • Richard Wildes

Lab Alumni

Post-Doctoral Fellows Supervised (U of Toronto):

  1. Tetsutaro Shibahara, 1984 – 1987
  2. Bryan Kramer, 1984 – 1987
  3. Armin Haken, 1984 – 1987
  4. Russ Greiner, 1984 – 1987
  5. Evangelos Milios, 1984 – 1988
  6. Sven Dickinson, 1991 – 1994
  7. Suzanne Stevenson, 1992 – 1993
  8. Pietro Parodi, February 1995 – Aug. 31, 1996
  9. Gilbert Verghese, May 1, 1995 – Jan. 1, 1999
  10. James MacLean, October 1, 1995 – Sept. 30, 1996
  11. Yiming Ye, October 1, 1996 – Apr. 30, 1997
  12. Rainer Herpers, April 1, 1998 – June 30, 1999

Post-Doctoral Fellows Supervised (York U):

  1. Florin Cutzu, February 1999 – Aug. 2000
  2. Marc Pomplun, Sept. 2000 – Jan. 2002
  3. Rachel Jiang, Sept. 2000 – Aug. 2002
  4. Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Nov 2002 – July 2004
  5. Michael Tombu, Sept. 2003 – Aug. 2005
  6. Christian Bauckhage, Feb. 2004 – Nov 2005
  7. Thomas Kaester, Sept. – Nov. 2005
  8. Daniel Loach, June 2004 – May 2006
  9. Dirk Walther, March 2006 – Aug. 2006
  10. Nicholaos Mavridis, May 2007 – August 2007
  11. Xin Chen, Feb 2008 – March 2009
  12. Neil Bruce, Feb. 1, 2010 – Jan 31, 2012
  13. Alexander Andreopoulos, Jan 1, 2011 – Dec, 31, 2011
  14. Albert Rothenstein, Jan. 2011 – Dec. 2012
  15. Oscar Javier Avella Gonzalez, Feb 2015 – Sept 2017
  16. Rakesh Sengupta, May 2015 – Sept 2017

Research Associates Supervised (U of Toronto):

  1. Brian Down, 1990 – 1994

Research Associates Supervised (York U):

  1. Markus Latzel, Oct. 2000 – July 2002
  2. Albert Rothenstein, May 2001 – May 2003
  3. Vintila, F., Dec. 2003 – Mar. 2006
  4. Robinson, M., Oct. 2004 – Sept. 2007
  5. Irina Kogan, Dec. 2003 – Feb. 2004
  6. Inna Tsirlin, Dec. 2003 – Feb. 2004
  7. Ksenia Shubina, Feb. 2007 – Apr. 2008
  8. Iuliia Kotseruba, June 2012 – Aug 2012
  9. Bo Wang, Apr. 2012 – Sept. 2013
  10. Eugene Simine, Sept. 2003 – Dec. 2014
  11. Asheer Bachoo, Mar. 2015 – Dec. 2016

Ph.D. Dissertations (Computer Science, University of Toronto):

  1. Shibahara, T., 1985
  2. Gershon, R., 1987
  3. Jenkin, M., 1988
  4. Barron J., 1988
  5. Dudek, G., 1990
  6. Lobo, N., December 1992
  7. Wilkes, D., Feb. 1994
  8. Verghese, G., September 1995
  9. Ye, Y., January 1997

Ph.D. Dissertations (Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto):

  1. Tet, Y., 1991

Ph.D. Dissertations (York University):

  1. Bruce, N.D.B., 2008
  2. Rodriguez-Sanchez, A.J., June 2010
  3. Mekuz, N., June 2010
  4. Rothenstein, A., January 2011
  5. Andreopoulos, A., January 2011
  6. Fazl, E., Sept. 2012
  7. Shi, X., January 2016

M.Sc. Theses (Computer Science, University of Toronto):

  1. Ho-Tai, S., 1981.
  2. Gershon, R., 1982
  3. Down, B., 1983
  4. Leung, T.H.T., 1983
  5. Jenkin, M., 1984
  6. Fleet, D., 1984
  7. Lobo, N., 1985
  8. Air, J., 1985
  9. Nunes, J., 1985
  10. Buchanan, C., 1986
  11. Shavit, E., 1989
  12. Drewery, K., 1989
  13. Culhane, S., 1992
  14. Lomas, D., 1992
  15. Lai, Y., October 1992
  16. Wai, W., January 1994
  17. Dolson, D., September 1997
  18. Liu, Q., September 1998
  19. Ruppell, T., Sept. 2001
  20. Rothenstein, A., Sept. 2002
  21. Berestetsky, V., May 2003

M.Sc. Theses (Computer Science, University of Western Ontario):

  1. Mekuz, N., March 2001

M.A.Sc. Theses (Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto):

  1. Levy-Mandel, A., 1984

M.Sc. Theses (York University):

  1. Liu, Y., Sept. 2002
  2. Rotenstein, A., April 2003
  3. Derpanis, K. , May 2003
  4. Zhu, Y., June 2003
  5. Zhou, K., May 2004
  6. Gryn, J., June 2004
  7. Zaharescu, A., July 2004.
  8. Andreopoulos, A., May 2005
  9. Leung, E., Sept. 2005
  10. Acosta, J., October 2006
  11. Simine, E., Dec. 2006
  12. Shubina, K., Jan. 2007
  13. Fine, G., April 2009
  14. Wloka, C., Oct. 2012
  15. Voland, S., May 2012
  16. Kotseruba, I., April. 2016
  17. Wu, Y., Jan. 2017
  18. Kunic, T., April 2017
  19. Sahdev, R., March 2018

M.A.Sc. Theses (Computer Science and Engineering, York University):

  1. Rasouli, A., January 2015

M.Sc. Thesis (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam):

  1. Kruijne, W., Aug, 2011

Research Assistants

  1. Nick Frosst, September 2013 – April 2015
  2. Apostolos Vasileiou, Summer 2015, Summer 2016
  3. Christopher Kim, Summer 2015
  4. Sidharth Sahdev, Jan. 2015 – April 2016
  5. Andrei Mouraviev, Summer 2016