People Type: Alumni

Biography Education BFA 2004, Interior Design, Iowa State University, Ames, IA MFA, 2014, Design Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI Research Interests Erin Schambureck is a Registered Interior Designer at CRW Architecture.  Previously, she taught Interior Design at Texas Tech University.  As part of her MFA work,  Schambureck researched the needs of the visually impaired …

Biography Advisor: Karen Schloss, PhD Keywords: Visual perception, color cognition, information visualization  Education: BS 2018, Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Research Interests: Melissa Schoenlein’s research focuses on understanding how people form conceptual inferences from visual input. In particular, she studies how people form color-concept associations that are used to make inferences about …

Biography Education BS 2004, Georgetown University VMD 2010, University of Pennsylvania Internship 2010-11, Companion Animal Medicine and Surgery, Louisiana State University Fellowship 2011-12, Comparative Ocular Pathology, University of Wisconsin–Madison Residency 2012-15, Comparative Ophthalmology, University of Wisconsin–Madison Clinical Interests Medical and surgical ophthalmology in veterinary patients with a special interest in glaucoma and ocular pathology. Research …

Biography Education BS, 1976, Biology, Iowa State University BS, 1995, Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh MS, 2000, Land Resources, UW–Madison MS, 2000, Community Health Nursing, UW–Madison PhD, 2004 Nursing and Land Resources, UW–Madison Research Professor Severtson studies how household and community-level environmental health risk information is related to beliefs and behavior, and how that information is …

Biography Education BA, 1960, Chemistry, Boston University MSc, 1964, Chemistry, University of Maryland PhD, 1968, Chemistry, University of Maryland PostDoc, 1969, University of Illinois-Urbana Research Interests Bassam Shakhashiri is the first holder of the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea at UW–Madison. He is well known internationally for his effective leadership in …

Biography Advisor: Brad Postle, PhD Keywords: Attention, visual working memory, control, neuroimaging Education BS 2019 Psychology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China Research Jiangang’s research focuses on attention and visual working memory (VWM). He has studied activity-silent VWM and the removal of information from VWM using behavioral tasks. He is currently using fMRI and EEG with …

Biography Advisor: Michael Gleicher, PhD Keywords: Robot perception, 3D imaging, single photon imaging Education BS 2020, Computer Science, Drury University MS 2022, Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison Research Carter’s research utilizes techniques from computational imaging to enable robot sensing that operates at levels as low as individual photons. His goal is to create artificial vision …

Biography Education BS, Psychology, 2001, University of Iowa PhD, Psychology, 2008, University of Iowa Research Interests Dr. Simmering’s research investigates the development of perception, action, and cognition, with an emphasis on visuo-spatial cognition. In particular, she studies how young children (ages 2-6 years) learn and remember objects’ properties and locations in space. Her research also …

Biography Research Zach Simmons is an optical physicist whose PhD work centered on manipulating the index of refraction in atomic systems. As a postdoc in the Rogers lab at the McPherson Eye Research Institute at UW Madison, he is interested in developing novel optical instrumentation and applying precision optical tools and methods to measuring optical …

Biography Education B.Tech 2001, Computer Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India Graduate work 2003-08, Physiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Postdoctoral Associate 2008-10, Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT Postdoctoral Associate, 2010-2014, Stem Cell Research, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI Research Interests The overall objective of Dr. Singh’s research is to find treatments …