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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, Department of Psychology, Cornell University (1999 - ) ː Director, Cornell Cognitive Studies Program (2001 - 2004) ː Professor, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex (1998 - 1999) ː Levinson Prize in Mathematics (1996)

	International academic achievements


● Associate Editor ː Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1999 - ) ː Cognitive Science (2000 - 2005) ● Ad-hoc Referee for ː Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vision Research, Biological Cybernetics, International Journal of Computer Vision, Neural Networks, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, etc.

	The research fields and major achievements


● The research fields - Vision - Language - Psychology ːFor the first time worldwide, explanation of neural networks to learn 3D object cognition (Nature, 1990) ːComputing the Mind: How the Mind Really Works (2008) is published which explains inner activities of brain/mind in terms of calculation

	Important Theses


ː “Unsupervised Learning of Natural Languages,” PNAS (2005) ː “Constraining the neural representation of the visual world,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2002) ː “Differential Processing of Objects under Various Viewing Conditions in the Human Lateral Occipital Complex,” Neuron (1999) ː “Fast Perceptual Learning in Visual Hyperacuity,” Science (1992) ː “A Network that Learns to Recognize Three-Dimensional Objects,” Nature (1990)




	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)