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 Careers and Awards      
  ː Head of the Research , Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (1996 - )
ː Head, Psychophysics Department, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (1996 - )
ː Founding Board Member, The Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (2007 - )
ː Board Member, European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate General
    Future and Emerging ː Technologies (2007 - )
ː Board Member, Max Planck Society (1996 - )
ː Professor, Brown University (1988 - 1996)
  
 

 

 International academic achievements      
  ● Editor-in-Chief
ː ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (2004 - 2009)		  
  ● Associate Editor
ː Journal of Vision (2002 - )
ː ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (2009 - )		  
  ● Conference Chair
ː IEEE International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (2002)
ː IEEE International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (2000)		  
 

 

 The research fields and major achievements      
 

● The research fields
- Biological Cybernetics
- Psychophysics
- Cognitive Science

ː For the first time worldwide, Development of Large Scale Omni-Directional Treadmill for free     walking in the virtual environment (Presence, 2008)
ː Development of a Motion Simulator based on the industrial Robot Arm which can be used for a     research on Visual Vestibular Integration. (SIGGRAPH, 2006)

 
 

 

 Important Theses      
  ː “Do HDR Displays Support LDR Content? A Psycho-physical Evaluation,” SIGGRAPH (2007)
ː “Classification of Faces in Man and Machine,” Neural Computation (2006)
ː “Image-Based Material Editing,” SIGGRAPH (2006)
ː “A Parallel Algorithm for Real-Time Computation of Motion,” Nature (1989)
ː “Analogous Motion Illusion in Man and Fly,” Nature (1979)
  
     
   
   
 

 

 Careers and Awards      
  ː Professor, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham (2000 - )
ː Director, Institute of Neuroscience (2008 - )
ː Founding Chair, European Research Network in Human Sensorimotor Functions in Health and
    Disease (2007 - )
ː Board Member, 7T MRI Scanner Management Group (2005 - )		  
 

 

 International academic achievements      
  ● Associate Editor
ː Behavioural Neurology (2003 - )
ː Behavioural Science and Neuropsychology Panel, Experimental Brain Research (2001 - )
ː Quarterly Journal Experimental Psychology (2008 - )
ː Journal of Neuropsychology (2006 - )
ː Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research into Consciousness, MIT Press (1993 - 1999)		  
 

 

 The research fields and major achievements      
 

● The research fields
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Neuropsychology
- Cognitive Brain Science

ː For the first time worldwide, Explanation of the visional movement function of the occipital lobe     in the cerebral cortex (2006)
ː Explanation of the relation between the eyeball movement and the development of Spatial     Attention Pattern (2004)
ː Explanation of the connection between Vision and Somatosensation (2001)

  
 

 

 Important Theses      
  ː “A Novel MR-Compatible Device for Providing Forces to the Human Finger During Functional
    Neuroimaging Studies,” NeuroImage (2007)
ː “Human Medial Frontal Cortex Mediates Unconscious Inhibition of Voluntary Action,” Neuron
    (2007)
ː “Recalibrating Time: When Did I Do That?,” Current Biology (2006)
ː “Evidence from Optic Ataxia Does Not Support a Distinction Between Planning and Control
    Mechanisms in Human Motor Control,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2005)		  
     
   
   
 

 

 Careers and Awards      
  ː University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University (1992 - )
ː Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005)
ː Fellow, ACM (2003)
ː Fellow, IEEE (1991)
ː Fellow, IAPR (1996)
ː Fellow, SPIE (1993)
ː IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize (2008)
ː IEEE W. McDowell Award (2007)
  
 

 

 International academic achievements      
  ● Editor-in-Chief
ː IEEE Trans. on PAMI (1991 - 1994)		  
  ● Associate Editor
ː ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (2006 - )
ː IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2005 - )
ː Pattern Recognition Journal (1989 - )
ː Pattern Recognition Letters (1984 - )
ː IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks (1994 - 1999)
  
 

 

 The research fields and major achievements      
 

● The research fields
- Biometrics
- Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
- Connectomics

ː 29,081 quotations from research theses
ː For the first time worldwide, Development of Deformation Modeling Theory for Recognition of 3D     face (IEEE T-PAMI, 2006)
ː His book, Algorithms for Clustering Data is ranked # 91 in the Most Cited Articles in Computer Science

  
 

 

 Important Theses      
  ː “Deformation Modeling for Robust 3D Face Matching,” IEEE T-PAMI (2008)
ː “From Templates to Images: Regenerating Finger-prints From Minutiae Points,” IEEE T-PAMI
    (2007)
ː “Biometric Recognition,” Nature (2007)
ː “Validating a Biometric Authentication System: Sample Size Requirements,” IEEE T-PAMI (2006)
ː “Dental Biometrics: Alignment and Matching of Dental Radiographs,” IEEE T-PAMI (2005)
  
     
   
   
 

 

 Careers and Awards      
  ː Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive & Behavioral Biology, Caltech (2000 - )
ː Director, Broad Fellows Program in Brain Circuitry (2005 - )
ː Foerster Lecture at University of California, Berkeley (2006)
ː J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture, Los Alamos, New Mexico (2005)
ː Bernard Osher Fellow at the San Francisco Exploratorium, California (2004)
ː Alexander von Humboldt Research Price (1997)
  
 

 

 International academic achievements      
  ● Associate Editor
ː Neural Computation
ː Neural Networks
ː Journal of Computational Neuroscience
ː Trends in Cognitive Sciences
ː Vision Research
ː Cerebral Cortex
ː Consciousness and Cognition
ː Advances in Consciousness Research
ː Journal of Consciousness Studies
  
 

 

 The research fields and major achievements      
 

● The research fields
- Vision
- Biology
- Visual consciousness

ː 10,864 quotations from research theses
ː Establishment of a model for vision calculation and regularity theory (Nature, 1985)
ː Explanation of neuron groups which relate to visionary cognition, long/abstract memory
    and are activated by various visionary information (Nature, 2005)

  
 

 

 Important Theses      
  ː “Unsupervised Learning of Natural Languages,“ PNAS (2005)
ː “A Single-Neuron Correlate of Change Detection and Change Blindness in the Human Medial
    Temporal Lobe,” Current Biology (2006)
ː “Invariant Visual Representation by Single Neurons in the Human Brain,” Nature (2005)
ː “Continuous Flash Suppression Reduces Negative Afterimages,” Nature Neuroscience (2005)
ː “Thinking about the Conscious Mind,” Science (2004)