People Type: Alumni

Biography Education BSc 2006, Computer Engineering (Software), Sari-Iran PhD 2018, University of Wisconsin–Madison Research Nasim Jamali is interested in the role of vitamin D in the regulation of angiogenesis and neovascularization, and its impact on eye diseases with a neovascular component. Her work in Dr. Nader Sheibani’s lab has shown that calcitriol, the active form …

Biography Advisor: Yuhang Zhao, PhD Keywords: Virtual reality, social interaction, visual impairment, accessibility, peripheral awareness Education BS 2020, Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Research Tiger is interested in making virtual reality more accessible to people with visual impairments. His research experience has been in interaction techniques for social VR. Publications

Biography Education Master’s 2015, Early Childhood Education, The University of Hong Kong PhD 2021, Human Development, University of Wisconsin–Madison Research Mengguo is a developmental psychologist investigating cognitive development and early learning in the context of media technology. Her research examines cognitive processes (i.e., attention, symbolic representation, intuitive reasoning) underlying children’s learning from different sources of …

Biography Education BA, Harvard College MS, Tufts University PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Interests When the brain is damaged, injured neurons die and typically are not replaced. This cell death frequently results in a loss of function by the affected region of the brain. However, if neurons that have died could be replaced and …

Biography Keywords: Accessible visualization, accessible design of data representation for people with visual impairments Education BA 2010, Applied Statistics, Yonsei University, Korea MS 2014, Human-Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington PhD 2020, Information Science, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Research Dr. Kim’s research interests lie in the intersection between human-computer interaction (HCI), …

Biography Education MD, New York University MPH, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Internship, New York University Hospital and Manhattan Veterans Administration Hospital Fellowship, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Residency, General Preventive Medicine, University of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill Residency, Ophthalmology, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison Faculty fellowship, Glaucoma, University …

Biography Education MD, New York University, New York, NY MPH, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Internship (Medicine), Bellevue Medical Center, New York, NY Residency (Ophthalmology), Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL Postdoctoral Training, Department of Ophthalmology, UW–Madison Clinical Interests Diabetic retinopathy and other ocular complications of diabetes, age-related eye diseases Research Interests Dr. …

Biography Advisor: Haley Vlach, PhD Keywords: Retinal bipolar cells Education BS 2017, Neuroscience, Washington and Lee University, Lexington City, VA Research Ms. Knabe is interested in understanding children’s visual attention during word learning. Using a Tobii X3-120 eye-tracker, she assessed children’s looking to several aspects of a word learning . She plans to use an …

Biography Education BA 2009, English, UW–Madison, Madison, WI MA 2011, English, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Research Annika Konrad studies disability communication, specifically the rhetorical and literate practices of people who are blind and visually impaired. Her goal is to better understand how people learn to communicate about disability. She runs a community-writing project for …

Biography Education  BS 2000, Chemistry, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN PhD 2005, Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Postdoc 2005-2008, Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA  Research  Pamela Kreeger is working to develop a novel model of the retinal microenvironment to determine the impact of microenvironmental properties and cell-cell interactions on angiogenesis in age-related …