Opportunities for Graduate Studies in perception at Rutgers University

Students interested in pursuing graduate studies in perception from a psychophysical, computational, or interdisciplinary perspective are encouraged to apply for study at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Rutgers has a large and diverse community of perception researchers, committed to fostering research and research collaborations that combine computational and psychophysical approaches to perceptual science.

The research laboratories, supported by a variety of federal grants, are actively pursuing work in a variety of areas in human and computer perception, including: animate motion; multisensory integration; stereoscopic vision; perception of shape; perception of objects and scenes; lightness and transparency; eye movements; attention; motion perception; visual communication; computational depiction; haptic perception; texture perception; visual search; American sign language analysis; and human action recognition. Students have the opportunity to integrate psychophysical and computational approaches under the advisement of one or more faculty in the Departments of Psychology, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.

Participating faculty include Lee Cronk, Kristin Dana, Doug DeCarlo, Ahmed Elgammal, Jacob Feldman, Alan Gilchrist, Guenther Knoblich, Eileen Kowler, Peter Meer, Dimitris Metaxas, Dinesh Pai, Thomas Papathomas, Vladimir Pavlovic, Zenon Pylyshyn, Ken Shan, Maggie Shiffrar, Manish Singh, Matthew Stone, and Karin Stromswold.

Support for graduate studies is available through university fellowships, teaching assistantships, and graduate research assistantships. Support for postdoctoral work is also available for several of the projects.

Students interested in graduate study may apply to one of the following departments: Psychology (New Brunswick or Newark), Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or Biomedical Engineering.

For further information, including links to the departments, associated research centers (Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and the Center for Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling), and the research laboratories, see http://perceptualscience.rutgers.edu. Email inquiries should be addressed to perceptualscience at(@)rutgers.edu

Applications or inquiries from prospective students in underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged. In addition, the RISE program at Rutgers, an undergraduate summer research program to advance diversity in science, math and engineering, has opportunities for summer research internships.

For further information about RISE, see http://rise.rutgers.edu