Alumni Directory
| First name | Last name | Thesis Title | Degree | Year | Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lin | Aaron Li | The Role of Gap Junction Communication in Lens Transparency: A Potential Strategy for Cataract | PhD | 2009 | Gong |
| Deborah | Adler | Eye movements, scanpaths, and dyslexia | PhD | 1976 | Stark |
| Arthur | Afanador | Early visual adaptation: A single-unit study in the in vivo goldfish retina | PhD | 1972 | Adams |
| Rachel | Albert | Approximate svBRDF Capture From Uncalibrated Mobile Phone Video | PhD | 2018 | O'Brien |
| Justin | Ales | PhD | 2007 | Klein | |
| Dale | Allen | Development of color vision in the human infant | PhD | 1990 | Banks |
| Amanda | Alvarez | Light, Nearwork, and Visual Environment Risk Factors in Myopia | PhD | 2012 | Wildsoet |
| Akiyuki | Anzai | Binocular Interaction in the Visual Cortex | PhD | 1997 | Freeman |
| Raymond | Applegate | Aperture effects on phototropic orientation properties of human photoreceptors | PhD | 1983 | Adams |
| Benjamin | Backus | Use of Vertical Disparity and Extra-retinal Eye Position Cues During Stereoscopic Perception of Surface Slant | PhD | 1997 | Banks |
| Suzanne | Baker | Localization Capabilities of VEP Source Localization and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Human Visual Cortex | PhD | 2003 | Klein |
| Roy | Baker | Computer-assisted refraction | MS | 1979 | Marg |
| Davis | Barch | Travelling Activity Waves and Distributed Effects in Excitable Membrane Models of the Visual Cortex Cortical Sheets | PhD | 2001 | Glaser |
| Lauren | Barghout- Stein | How Global Perceptual Context Changes Local Contrast Processing | PhD | 2003 | Malik |
| Lauren | Barghout- Stein | On differences between peripheral and foveal pattern masking | MS | 1999 | Klein |
| Heidi | Baseler | A comparison of mechanisms contributing touman foveal and near- peripheral vision using multi-focal VEPs | PhD | 1995 | Klein |
| Shirin | Bearez | Inputs and the interaction between inputs into the pupil | MS | 1984 | Stark |
| Billie | Beckwith-Cohen | Probing Neurophysiological Function in the Outer Retina Using Chemogenetic Manipulation and Optogenetic Sensors | PhD | 2021 | Kramer |
| Ethan | Bensinger | Dysflective Cones in Healthy and Diseased Eyes | PhD | 2021 | Roorda |
| Shrikant | Bharadwaj | Neural Control Strategies of the Human Focusing Mechanism | PhD | 2005 | Schor |
| Colin | Blakemore | Binocular interaction in animals and humans | PhD | 1968 | Barlow |
| Alexandra | Boehm | Spatial and Color Vision in the Absence of Eye Movements | PhD | 2019 | Roorda |
| Joseph | Bonanno | In vivo studies of human corneal pH | PhD | 1987 | Polse |
| Joel | Bowen | Effects of spatial attention on crowded peripheral processing | PhD | 2022 | Silver |
| Norick | Bowers | Fixational Eye Movements and Binocular Stability on the Retinal Image | PhD | 2022 | Roorda |
| Arthur | Bradley | Psychophysical studies of amblyopia | PhD | 1983 | Freeman |
| Alisa | Braun | Retinal Motion and Acuity | PhD | 2024 | Tuten |
| David | Bressler | Spatial Attention Improves Retinotopic Mapping | PhD | 2012 | Silver |
| Kevin | Bronson- Castain | Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Adulthood and Adolescence: Focal Retinal Function, Structure and | PhD | 2008 | Adams |
| Kelly | Bryne | Cholinergic modulation of perceptual learning | PhD | 2019 | Silver |
| Johannes | Burge | Figure-ground Cues, Disparity, and Depth Perception: The Internalization of Natural Scene Statistics | PhD | 2008 | Banks |
| Daqing | Cai | Developmental studies of LGN | PhD | 1996 | Freeman |
| Maria Theresa | Canas Bajo | Individual Differences in Perception of Mooney Faces | PhD | 2022 | Whitney |
| Rowan | Candy | Optical and retinal constraints on vision in the human neonate | PhD | 1997 | Banks |
| Christopher | Cantor | The Temporal Impulse Response Model of the Flash Lag Effect | PhD | 2005 | Schor |
| Patrick | Carney | Steroid Hormones: Influencers of Myopic Progression? | PhD | 2019 | Wildsoet |
| Darrell | Carter | Studies of visual fixation disparity | PhD | 1957 | Marg |
| Judy | Chan | Human In Vivo Measurements of Tear Flow under Contact Lenses | MS | 1996 | Polse |
| Hoover | Chan | Studies on the binocular and equiluminant aspects of color vision | PhD | 1989 | De Valois |
| Wesley | Chaney | Object Recognition in Spatial and Temporal Context: Crowding and Serial Dependence | PhD | 2017 | Whitney |
| Avijit | Chaudhuri | Aspects of metastable apparent motion | PhD | 1987 | Glaser |
| Hai-Wen | Chen | Quantification of monocuilar space perception and metamorphosis | PhD | 1989 | Enoch |
| Dimitri | Chernyak | Role of Active Vision in Scene Analysis and Representation | PhD | 2001 | Stark |
| Brian | Cheung | The emergence of structured representations in gradient based learning | PhD | 2019 | Olshausen |
| Albert | Chin | N/A | MS | 2019 | Levi |
| Kenneth | Ciuffreda | Eye movements in amblyopia and strabismus | PhD | 1977 | Stark |
| Daniel | Coates | Qualifying crowding and letter recognition | PhD | 2015 | Chung |
| Stephen | Cohen | Humidity and pH effects on corneal hydration control | PhD | 1995 | Polse |
| Nancy | Coletta | Influence of surround adaptation on flicker sensitivity | PhD | 1985 | Adams |
| Larry | Cormack | The binocular processing of random element stereograms of variable interocular correlation | PhD | 1993 | Schor |
| Nicolas | Cottaris | The Dynamic Receptive Field Structure of Cone Inputs to Macaque LGN and V1 Neurons | PhD | 2001 | De Valois |
| Julia | Cox | Imaging Sleep-Wake Activity in Identified Pontine Cell Populations | PhD | 2014 | Dan |
| Paul | Cullen | Under Pressure: The Role of Retinal Astrocytes and the Response to Ocular Hypertension | PhD | 2021 | Flanagan |
| Sangita | Dandekar | EEG Studies of Visual Processing: Intra and Inter-Subject Variability, Saccades, and Object Recognition | PhD | 2009 | Klein |
| Shahram | Dastmalchi | Functional Brain Imaging: Extracting Temporal Responses of Multiple Cortical Areas from Multi-focal Visual Evoked Potentials | PhD | 2003 | Klein |
| Wendy | Davis | Studies of Neon Color Spreading | PhD | 2004 | De Valois |
| Kavita | Dhamdhere | Novel Measures Of Retinal Health And Their Inter- relationships In Early Diabetes | PhD | 2012 | Adams |
| Robert | DiMartino | Flexure of rigid contact lenses | MS | 1988 | Mandell |
| Thang | Duong | Some Constraints on Models of the Early Visual Pathway | PhD | 2007 | Freeman |
| Vasha | DuTell | Spatiotemporal Signal Characteristics and Processing During Natural Vision | PhD | 2022 | Olshausen |
| Tatiana | Ecoiffier | Corneal Lymphangiogenesis: Anatomical Description and Investigation of | PhD | 2013 | Chen |
| Jeff | Edelman | Anion transport mechanisms regulate fluid absorption across the RPE | PhD | 1991 | Miller |
| Nevin | El-Nimri | Understanding the Link between Myopia and Glaucoma- Clues from Intraocular Pressure and Optic Discs | PhD | 2019 | Wildsoet |
| Timothy | Erlenmeyer | MS | 2010 | Silver | |
| Michael | Fendick | Mechanisms subserving visual stimulus localization and vernier acuity | PhD | 1984 | Westheimer |
| Frederick | Finkler | Flicker fusion and intraocular pressure | MS | 1967 | Peters |
| Alana | Firl | Mechanisms Underlying Spontaneous Glutamatergic Activityin Developing Mouse Retina | PhD | 2014 | Feller |
| Orneika | Flandrin | Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Ion Channels and Corneal Defense Against Bacterial Adhesion | PhD | 2024 | Fleiszig |
| Wiliam | Fleischman | Pulfrich Phenomena | MS | 1950 | Walls |
| Merton | Flom | The empirical longitudinal horopter in anomalous correspondence | PhD | 1957 | Morgan |
| Victoria Cynthia | Fong | Optogenetic Restoration of High-Sensitivity Vision Using ChRmine- and ChroME-based Channelrhodopsin Variants | PhD | 2024 | Flannery |
| Katharina | Foote | Noninvasive Assessment of Photoreceptor Structure and Function in Retinitis Pigmentosa with Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy | PhD | 2019 | Roorda |
| Brad | Fortune | Clinical Electrophysiologic Studies of Retinal Function in Hyperglycemia and Diabetes | PhD | 1998 | Adams |
| Cécile | Fortuny | Designing Novel Gene therapies for Inherited Retinal Diseases | PhD | 2019 | Flannery |
| Donald | Freeman | Visual acuity development and the sensitive period in cat and man | PhD | 1980 | Marg |
| Ralph | Freeman | The oxygen consumption of the rabbit cornea | MS | 1969 | Fatt |
| Shelley | Fried | The Circuitry and Mechanisms Underlying Directional Selectivity in Rabbit Retinal Ganglion Cells | PhD | 2004 | Werblin |
| Momi | Furuya | Rapid nonconjugate adaptation of vertical voluntary pursuit eye movements | PhD | 1991 | Banks |
| Christina | Gambacorta | Uncovering the Link Between Eye Movements and Visual Attention in the Amblopia | PhD | 2016 | Levi |
| James | Gao | fMRI visualization and methods | PhD | 2015 | Gallant |
| Mariana | Garcia | Myopia Control in Guinea Pigs | PhD | 2014 | Wildsoet |
| Tandra | Ghose | Extremal Edges A Powerful Cue to Depth and Figure-Ground Organization | PhD | 2006 | Malik |
| Tandra | Ghose | Depth Cue Combination and Slant Anisotropy | MS | 2004 | Banks |
| Claude | Giasson | Effects of contact lens wear and lactate transport on corneal epithelial intracellar pH | PhD | 1994 | Bonanno |
| Ahna | Girshick | Probabilistic integration of sensory information for 3D visual surface slant perception | PhD | 2007 | Banks |
| Gerald | Gleason | Rapid nonconjugate adaptation of vertical voluntary pursuit eye movements | PhD | 1991 | Schor |
| Angelica | Godinez | Understanding the Plasticity, Motor Deficits and Possible Adaptations Associated with Poor Stereopsis | PhD | 2022 | Levi |
| Hubert | Goodwin | Effect of ultra-sound on optic nerve function | PhD | 1964 | Marg |
| Erich | Graf | Plasticity of the Oculomotor System | PhD | 2001 | Schor |
| Kenneth | Greenberg | Development of Targeted Gene Therapy Vectors for Retinal Disease | PhD | 2007 | Flannery |
| Daniel | Greenhouse | Saccadic suppression of flash detection | PhD | 1981 | Cohn |
| David | Grisham | Binocular vision, accommodation-convergence | MS | 1977 | Kerr |
| Bryan | Gros | Motion and position detection in early vision | PhD | 1995 | Cohn |
| Karen | Guerin | Pharmaceutical and Gene-based Therapies for Retinal Degeneration | PhD | 2008 | Flannery |
| Michael | Hadley | the Role of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) | MS | 2013 | Olshausen |
| Gunilla | Haegerstrom- Portnoy | Spatial sensitization properties of the SWS pathways of the human eye | PhD | 1983 | Adams |
| Duco | Hamasaki | Neurophysiological study of accessory optic tract | PhD | 1959 | Marg |
| Feng | Han | Visual coding in the primary visual cortex: From single neuron to cortical ensemble | PhD | 2007 | Dan |
| Ying | Han | The multifocal electroretinogram as a predictor of local diabetic retinopathy | PhD | 2004 | Adams |
| Elise | Harb | Human Behaviors and Myopia | PhD | 2019 | Wildsoet |
| Willam | Hare | Signal transfer at the outer plexiform layer of the retinal of the tiger salamander | PhD | 1989 | Owen |
| Adeola | Harewood Smith | Spatial Resolution in Perception and Working Memory | PhD | 2017 | Silver |
| Wendy | Harrison | Longitudinal Studies utilizing Local Neural Retinal Function, measured by Multifocal Electroretinograms, for the Prediction of Diabetic Eye Disease | PhD | 2011 | Adams |
| Michael | Harrison | Stability of the corneal thickness | MS | 1968 | Mandell |
| Daniel | Harvitt | Corneal oxygen availability and metabolism with contact lens wear | PhD | 1997 | Bonanno |
| Gordon | Heath | Flicker-fusion and luminosity functions in normal and dichromatic observers | PhD | 1960 | Walls |
| Frederick | Hebbard | Eye movements during fixation and fusion | PhD | 1957 | Walls |
| Zachary | Helft | Remodeling fo the Retina Following Photoreceptor Degeneration that Enables Targeted Azobenzene Photosensitization | PhD | 2017 | Kramer |
| Teresa | Hernandez | Perceptual and Ocularmotor Mappings of Visual Space Following Saccadic Adaptation | PhD | 2006 | Schor |
| Richard | Hill | Neurophysiological study of color vision in rabbits | PhD | 1961 | Marg |
| Jaime | Hillis | Issues in Binocular Vision: The Stability of Corresponding Points and the Stereoscopic Perception of Surface Slant | PhD | 2002 | Banks |
| Chak Hang (Julian) | Ho | N/A | MS | 2022 | Flanagan, Gronert |
| David | Hoffman | The Role of Focus Cues in Stereopsis and the Development of a Novel Volumetric Display | PhD | 2010 | Banks |
| Erich | Hornstein | Sex, Time, and Space: A Study of Dimorphism in Photoreceptors of Musca | PhD | 1998 | Cohn |
| Peter | Howarth | Flicker and the pupil | PhD | 1989 | Bailey |
| Tracy | Huang | Installing Light Sensitivity in Blind Mouse Retinas Using Photoswitch Molecules that Photosensitize Native K+ Channels | MS | 2009 | Kramer |
| Qung | Huang | Multipole analysis of spatial vision | PhD | 1995 | Klein |
| George | Hung | Interpretation and physiological applications of higher degree kernel identification method | PhD | 1977 | Stark |
| George | Jastrebski | Dynamics of visual acuity in children: A model for treatment and prevention of stimulus deprivation amblyopia | PhD | 1982 | Marg |
| Ashby | Jones | Observations on eye movements during scanning and reading | PhD | 1984 | Stark |
| Jasmine | Junge | Quantifying Visual Functions in Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment | PhD | 2018 | Orel-Bixler |
| Gyeong Jin (Stella) | Kang | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of corneal lymphangiogenesis and valvulogenesis | PhD | 2018 | Chen |
| Tsung-Wei | Ke | Learning Visual Groupings and Representations with Minimal Human Labels | PhD | 2022 | Whitney, Yu |
| Roderick | Keener | Long-term change and diurnal variations in orthokeratology and conventionally-fit contact lens patients | MS | 1984 | Polse |
| Emily | Kenyon | pH regulation in bovine RPE | PhD | 1994 | Miller |
| Robert | Kenyon | Vergence eye movements in strabismus and amblyopia | PhD | 1978 | Stark |
| Kenton | Kerr | Vergence-induced correspondence changes in anomalous retinal correspondence | PhD | 1969 | Flom |
| Prayrana | Khadye | The Effects of Propagated Waves on Spontaneous Activity in Primary Visual Cortex | PhD | 2006 | Dan |
| Amir | Khosrowshahi | The laminar organization of V1 neural activity in response to dynamic natural scenes | PhD | 2011 | Olshausen |
| Taekjun | Kim | Relative functions of feedforward, feedback, and horizontal connections in the central visual pathway | PhD | 2014 | Freeman |
| Young Hyun | Kim | Effects of Oxygen and Salt Transport Across Contact Lenses on Lens-Wear Safety and Comfort | PhD | 2022 | Lin, Radke |
| David | Kirshen | Visual acuity and oculomotor control in amblyopia | PhD | 1977 | Flom |
| Gregory | Klein | Deformable Models for Volume Feature Tracking | PhD | 1999 | Malik |
| Robert | Kleinstein | Sclera as outflow path for aqueous humor | PhD | 1974 | Fatt |
| Pei-Yi | Ko | Windowed Cross-Correlation Model for Auditory-Visual Correlation Detection | MS | 2007 | Banks |
| Sarah | Kochik | Modeling Myopia in Guinea Pigs | PhD | 2019 | Liu |
| Robert | Kong | Electrical responses of isolated single cones of the tiger salamander | PhD | 1979 | Werblin |
| Frank | Kooi | The analysis of two-dimensional luminance and color-motion perception | PhD | 1990 | De Valois |
| John | Kotulak | The stimulus to accommodation and its effect on the vergence system | PhD | 1985 | Schor |
| Vengu | Lakshminaray anan | The Stiles-Crawford effect in aniridia | PhD | 1985 | Enoch |
| David | Lasley | A signal-detection analysis of human visual performance | PhD | 1977 | Cohn |
| Elizabeth | Lawler | Prediction’s Role in Perceptual Selection | PhD | 2022 | Silver |
| Charles | Leahy | Compositional development of contact lens deposits | PhD | 1990 | Mandell |
| Janice | Lee | Gene therapy of neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration | PhD | 2006 | Flannery |
| Ellen | Lee | Comparison Studies of Invasive and Cytotoxic Pseudomonas Aeruginosa | PhD | 2003 | Fleiszig |
| Eric | Li | The Use of Infared Thermography and the Pain Sensivity Questionaire to Understand Evaporative Dry Eye | PhD | 2016 | Lin |
| Kaccie | Li | Imaging the Foveal Cone Mosaic with a MEMS-based Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser ophthalmoscope | PhD | 2010 | Roorda |
| Zeyu | Li | Calibrating A Multi-camera Array | MS | 2008 | Klein |
| Gary | Liberman | Disjunctive eye movements in cats | PhD | 1975 | Adams |
| Meng | Lin | The Effects on Contact Lenses on Corneal Epithelial Barrier Function and Post-lens Tear Film | PhD | 2002 | Polse |
| Doris | Lin | Oxygen supply to the cornea of an open and closed eye wearing a contact lens | PhD | 1992 | Fatt |
| Sue | Lin | Tear protein analysis by capillary electrophoresis | PhD | 1991 | Mandell |
| Taras | Litvin | Development and Validation of New approaches for the DEtection of Sight-Threatening Diabetic Macular Edema | PhD | 2017 | Roorda |
| Yue | Liu | The Effects of Complex Optical Environments on the Development, Progression and Control of Myopia | PhD | 2011 | Wildsoet |
| Lei | Liu | Dichoptic stimulation in binocular vision | PhD | 1994 | Schor |
| Alan | Lu | Environmental and Pharmacological Influence of Eye Growth in Chicks: Implications for Myopia | PhD | 2013 | Wildsoet |
| Paul | Macneilage | Psychophysical Investigations of Visual-vestibular Interactions in Human Spatial Orientation | PhD | 2007 | Banks |
| Temina | Madon | The Reproducibility and Patterning of Retinal Ganglion Cell Spike Trains Elicited by Natural Stimuli | PhD | 2004 | Owen |
| Luke | Mahon | Analysis of Visual Processing of Cartesian and Non-Cartesian Gratings | PhD | 1999 | De Valois |
| Rafael | Malach | Effect of cortical lesions upon OKN in normal and monocularly-deprived cats | PhD | 1982 | Van Sluyters |
| Inna | Maltseva | Impact of Contact Lens Wear on Corneal Epithelial Innate Immune response to Pseudomonas aeruginosa | PhD | 2005 | Fleiszig |
| Elwin | Marg | The pupillary near reflex: The relationship of pupillary size to accommodation, convergence, proximity, and fusion | PhD | 1950 | Morgan |
| Lynn | Marran | Aniso-accommodation | PhD | 1997 | Schor |
| James | Marron | Visual skills and orientation-mobility performance in low vision | MS | 1981 | Bailey |
| Gary | Martinsen | The Multifocal Electroretinogram in Aging and Age-Related Macular Degeneration | PhD | 2000 | Haegerstrom- Portnoy |
| Bruno | Marx | Analysis of localization and its relationship to resolution and recognition | PhD | 1974 | Freeman |
| Jeff | McCandless | Neural models of cross-coupling interactions controlling binocular vertical eye alignment | PhD | 1996 | Schor |
| Glen | McCormack | The albino visual pathway defect and human strabismus | 1977 | Marg | |
| Robert | McGarvey | Spatio-temporal threshold effects | MS | 1983 | Cohn |
| Laura | McGee Sanftner | Development of Adeno-Associated Viral Gene Therapies for Retinal Degeneration | PhD | 2001 | Flannery |
| Iona | McLean | Distortions in Wearable Optics: Comfort, Perception, and Adaptation | PhD | 2024 | Cooper |
| Leon | McLin | Target size and luminance effects on accommodation and vergence | MS | 1987 | Schor |
| Nancy | McNamara | Pseudomonous infections | PhD | 1996 | Polse |
| Michael | Menz | Functional Connectivity of Binocular Disparity Tuned Neurons in Striate Cortex | PhD | 2001 | Freeman |
| Robert | Meyerson | The Visual System Does Not Compensate for Different Image Sizes in the Two Eyes that Result from Eccentric Gaze | MS | 2006 | Banks |
| Kimberly | Miller | Tear-Film Considerations With and Without Contact Lens Wear | PhD | 2002 | Polse & Radke |
| Donald | Mitchell | Sensory Control of Disjunctive Eye Movements | PhD | 1968 | Westheimer |
| Avigael | Moed Aizenman | Eye Movements in Amblyopia and the (un)natural Statistics of Eye Movements and Binocular Disparities in VR | PhD | 2022 | Levi |
| Sanam | Mozaffari | Structural and Functional Adaptive Optics Retinal Imaging | PhD | 2021 | Roorda |
| Mayur | Mudigonda | Inference and Sensorimotor representations in the brain and machines | PhD | 2019 | Deweese |
| James | Mun | Harnessing the Anti-infective Activity of the Ocular Surface to Prevent Infection | PhD | 2010 | Fleiszig |
| Donald | Mutti | The role of the crystalline lens in emmetropization and the development of refractive error in childhood | PhD | 1992 | Adams |
| April | Myers | Associative Fear Learning in the Visual Cortex | MS | 2022 | Ji |
| Chetan | Nandakumar | Invariance in Human Visual Perception | PhD | 2011 | Malik |
| Venki | Narayan | Oculomotor performance and visual fatigue | PhD | 1984 | Stark |
| Diane | Nava | Participation of Retinal Glucagonergic Amacrine Cells in the Regulation of tEye Growth and Refractive Error: Evidence from Neurotoxins and In Vivo Immunolesioning | PhD | 2016 | Wildsoet |
| Erik | Nemeth | Formation of Space-Time Patterns at Ganglion Cell Layers in the Tiger Salamander Retina | PhD | 2000 | Werblin |
| Charles | Neveu | Ocular accommodation and the virtual lens | PhD | 1995 | Stark |
| James | Newacheck | Predicting the effect of luminance and contrast on visual resolution from a post-contrast threshold | MS | 1988 | Haegerstrom- Portnoy |
| Jason | Ng | Longitudinal Study of Retinal Neural Function by Multifocal Electroretinograms in Diabetic Patients with and without Diabetic Retinopathy | PhD | 2008 | Adams |
| Minjian | Ni | The Role of Surfactant Protein D in Ocular Defense Against Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Keratitis | PhD | 2006 | Fleiszig |
| Melvin | O'Neal | In vivo assessment of mechanisms controlling corneal hydration | PhD | 1985 | Polse |
| James | O’Shea | The perception of shape, lighting and material properties in images | PhD | 2012 | Banks |
| Prema | Obrien | Scleral bioreactor: Design and use for evaluation of myopia therapies | PhD | 2011 | Wildsoet |
| Izumi | Ohzawa | Binocular organization of cat visual cortex | PhD | 1986 | Freeman |
| Michael | Oliver | Nonlinear Modeling of the Early and Mid-Level Visual System | PhD | 2014 | Gallant |
| Deborah | Orel-Bixler | Subjective and visual evoked potential measures of acuity in normal and amblyopic adults and children | PhD | 1989 | Haegerstrom- Portnoy |
| Clyde | Oyster | The analysis of retinal image motion by the rabbit retina | PhD | 1967 | Barlow |
| Weston | Pack | Spatial and Feature-based Attention | PhD | 2013 | Klein |
| Varuna | Padmanabhan | Mechanisms of Emmetropization in chick – effect of Continuous Light and Binocular Interaction | PhD | 2005 | Wildsoet |
| Dylan | Paiton | An in-depth analysis of the Locally Competitive Algorithm for neural coding | PhD | 2019 | Olshausen |
| Brent | Parsons | Temporal Contraints on Saccadic Eye Movements | PhD | 2017 | Ivry |
| Paul | Pease | Spectral properties of monkey lateral geniculate cells | MS | 1975 | De Valois |
| Matthew | Peterson | Visual Temporal Processing | PhD | 2003 | Freeman |
| Elise | Piazza | Hemispheric Asymmetry and Multisensory Learning Impact Visual Perceptual Selection | PhD | 2015 | Banks & Silver |
| Aleksandra | Polosukhina | Vision restoration using photochemical compounds | PhD | 2013 | Wildsoet |
| Kenneth | Polse | Effects of reduced oxygen tension at the corneal surface | PhD | 1969 | Mandell |
| David | Pope | Ocular accommodation and the virtual lens | PhD | 1995 | Cohn |
| Christopher | Purington | n/a | MS | 2016 | n/a |
| Nicole | Putnam | Characterization of the Structure and Function of the Normal Human Fovea Using Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy | PhD | 2012 | Roorda |
| Judy | Quong | Retinal Pigment Epithelium Physiology and Gene Therapy | PhD | 1997 | Miller |
| Thomas | Raach | Lateral masking and enhancement with spatially-periodic visual stimuli | PhD | 1988 | Bailey |
| Jeffrey | Rabin | Non-invasive studies of the human visual system | PhD | 1991 | Adams |
| Ary | Ramoa | Inhibitory and excitatory processes contributing to the response properties of neurons in the cat's visual cortex | PhD | 1986 | Freeman |
| Robert | Randle | Volitional control of visual accommodation through training | PhD | 1973 | Stark |
| Kavitha | Ratnam | The Effects of Retinal Image Motion on the Limits of Spatial Vision | PhD | 2017 | Roorda |
| Zhihang | Ren | GAN-aided Serial Dependence Study in Medical Image Perception | PhD | 2024 | Yu |
| Reuben | Reuben | Mechanisms in contact-lens-induced corneal acidosis | PhD | 1995 | Polse |
| Stuart | Richer | A colorimetric model for predicting chromatic and brightness discrimination of filter-corrected dichromats | MS | 1985 | Adams |
| Ethan | Rossi | The Limits of Visual Resolution | PhD | 2009 | Roorda |
| Niles | Roth | Electrical potentials and accommodation of the rabbit eye | PhD | 1961 | Marg |
| Sigmund | Sabin | Color vision of squirrels - a histological study | MS | 1953 | Walls |
| Jimmie | Saladin | The role of the ciliary mechanism in accommodation | PhD | 1972 | Stark |
| Morton | Sarver | Residual astigmatism and contact lenses | MS | 1962 | Westheimer |
| Gary | Savage | Scotopic contrast sensitivity: Real vs ideal performance | PhD | 1988 | Banks |
| Albert | Scaief | Static testing of ophthalmic glass lenses | PhD | 1973 | Fatt |
| Brooke | Schefrin | Psychophysical vision testing of sites of disease action secondary to diabetics | PhD | 1989 | Adams |
| Clifton | Schor | Oculomotor and neurosensory analysis of amblyopia | PhD | 1972 | Flom |
| Susan | Schwartz | Investigation of rose factor K | PhD | 1975 | Glaser |
| Gary | Sclar | Studies of normal and abnormal function in the visual cortex | PhD | 1984 | Freeman |
| Julie | Scott | Spatio-termporal Masking with Luminance-varying and Isoluminant Stimuli | PhD | 1998 | De Valois |
| Julie | Self | Categorization of Natural Scenes Containing More than One Distinct Category | MS | 2022 | Silver |
| Marcos | Serra-Oller | Pattern of interhemispheric connections in neocortex of mice with congenital deficiencies of the callosal commisure | MS | 1987 | Van Sluyters |
| Christy | Sheehy | Retinal Image-based Eye-Tracking Using the Tracking Scanning Laser Opthalmoscope | PhD | 2016 | Roorda |
| Leslie | Shupenko | The Fast and Slow Oscillations of the Electro-oculogram in Diabetes | MS | 2002 | Adams |
| Amnon | Silverstein | A Model of Human Vision | PhD | 1999 | Klein |
| Bernt | Skottun | Neurophysiology and perception: Studies of the visual system | MS | 1987 | De Valois |
| Scott | Slotnick | Using Multi-stimulus VEP Source Localization to Obtain a Detailed Retinotopic Map of Human Primary Visual Cortex | PhD | 1998 | Klein |
| Shuang | Song | Acuity, Crowding, Feature Detection, and Fixation in Normal and Amblyopic Vision | PhD | 2009 | Levi |
| Lauren | Spano | MS | 2022 | Levi | |
| William | Sprague | The Statistics of Disparity in Natural Viewing | PhD | 2015 | Banks |
| Dustin | Stansbury | Neural Representation Using Statistical Features of Natural Scenes | PhD | 2014 | Gallant |
| Natalie | Stepien-Bernabe | The Impact of Technology and Presentation Mode on Reading Comprehension Among Blind and Sighted Individuals | PhD | 2019 | Orel-Bixler |
| James | Su | Interactions between Biomaterials and the Sclera: Implications on Myopia Progression | PhD | 2009 | Wildsoet |
| Aaron | Sullivan | The role of the Type III Secretion system in bacterial traversal of the corneal epithelia | PhD | 2015 | Fleiszig |
| Ellen | Takahashi | Effects of flanking contours on visual resolution at foveal and near-foveal loci | PhD | 1968 | Flom |
| Janice | Tarrant | Spherical Aberration, Accommodation and Myopia | PhD | 2010 | Wildsoet |
| Justin | Theiss | Computational Models of Visual Attention within a Probabilistic Inference Framework | PhD | 2022 | Silver |
| Larry | Thibos | The control of retinal intensity-response function by antagonistic receptive fields | PhD | 1975 | Werblin |
| Jeffrey | Thompson | Simultaneous Measurements of Tissue Oxygen and Neural Activity: Implications for Functional Brain Imaging | PhD | 2004 | Freeman |
| Yibin | Tian | Optical Aberrations, Retinal Image Quality and Eye Growth: Experimentation and Modeling | PhD | 2007 | Wildsoet |
| Jonathan | Touryan | Non-linear analysis of complex cells in cat visual cortex | PhD | 2004 | Dan |
| Netsuke | Toyofuku | Image Feature Utilization for Target Detection in Monochromatic Images | PhD | 2006 | Klein |
| Anthony | Truchard | Functional Information Processing in the Visual Cortex of the Cat Cues During Stereoscopic Perception of Surface Slant | PhD | 2001 | Freeman |
| Tan | Truong | Formation and Function of Luminal Lymphatic Valves During Lymphangiogenesis | PhD | 2014 | Chen |
| Tracy | Tseutaki | Interaction between accommodation and vergence: Effects of adaptation | PhD | 1986 | Schor |
| Ashley | Tuan | Posterior Capsular Opacification Quantification and Visual Outcomes Analyses | PhD | 2002 | Bailey |
| William | Tuten | Cellular Functional Architecture of the Human Cone Photoreceptor Mosaic | PhD | 2014 | Roorda |
| Dan | Twelker | The Pterygium Evaluation Project | PhD | 2001 | Bailey |
| Corina | Van de Pol | Corneal Shape Descriptors and the Prediction of Visual Performance After Refractive Surgery | PhD | 1999 | Klein |
| Wayne | Verdon | Visual psychophysics of the human SWS pathways | PhD | 1988 | Adams |
| Ahalya | Viswanathan | Neurometabolic coupling is not uniform in cerebral cortex | PhD | 2009 | Freeman |
| Tania | Vu | Transduction of Natural Stimuli and Noise in Rod Photoreceptors of the Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum | PhD | 1997 | Owen |
| Gary | Walker | Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Primary Visual Cortex | PhD | 1998 | Freeman |
| Laura | Walker- Renninger | Parts, Objects, and Scenes: Computational Models and Psychophysics | PhD | 2003 | Malik |
| Steven | Waller | No thesis — Degree awarded after comprehensive examination | MS | 1977 | Mandell |
| Stephanie | Wan | Bacterial interactions with the ocular surface | PhD | 2019 | Fleiszig |
| Samantha | Wang | Estrogen Regulation of the 15LOX/LXA4 Protective Lipid Circuit in the Corneal Inflammatory-Reparative Response | PhD | 2013 | Gronert |
| Jimmy | Wang | Learning Transformations From Video | PhD | 2010 | Olshausen |
| Peter | Wang | Towards Real-World Representation Learning and Its Healthcare Applications | PhD | 2023 | Lin, Yu |
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