Faculty Research: Bioengineering

Current vision research projects in bioengineering include investigations into computer-aided cornea modeling and visualization, virtual environments for surgical simulation, Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) analysis, neurophysiology of the circuitry in central visual pathways, membrane biophysics, gene therapy, binocular vision in human development, ocular motility, control of eye movements, pupil and accomodation, image processing, scanpath theory, telerobotics, virtual reality,myopia, and ocular aberrations and eye.

Martin S. Banks, PhD
Binocular vision, motion perception, space perception, infant vision

Brian A. Barsky, PhD
Computer graphics; computer aided geometric design and modeling; visualization in scientific computing; computer aided cornea modeling and visualization; OPTICAL: medical imaging; virtual environments for surgical simulation

Yang Dan, PhD
Visual neurophysiology, computational neuroscience

RalPhD Freeman, OD, PhD
Neurophysiological investigations of circuitry in central visual pathways.

Stanley A. Klein, PhD
Spatial vision modeling, psychophysical methods and vision test design, corneal topography and contact lens design, source localization of evoked potentials, fMRI, amblyopia.

Richard H. Kramer, PhD
Chemical signaling within and between neurons.

W. Geoffrey Owen, PhD
Phototransduction, retinal physiology, adaptation, retinal computation

Clayton J. Radke, PhD
Combining principles of surface and colloid science towards engineering technologies where phase boundaries dictate system behavior

Austin Roorda, PhD
High resolution retinal imaging, adaptive optics, physiological optics, limits of human vision

Clifton M. Schor, OD, PhD
Binocular vision: human development, ocular motility, strabismus, amblyopia

Michael A. Silver, PhD
Neural correlates of human visual perception and attention

Frank S. Werblin, PhD
Electrophysiology of local circuit interactions in the neural retina