Head of Lab

 

Austin Roorda, PhD

 

   

 

aroorda at berkeley.edu

Senior Personnel/Postdocs
positions open!! email CV and letter of interest.    

Students

Leah Johnston

  • BA, Linguistics and Biology, Reed College, 2006

  • PhD Student in Vision Science

   leah.johnston
at
berkeley.edu

Josephine D'Angelo

  • BS Neurobiology, University of Washington

  • PhD Student in Vision Science

   josephine_dangelo
at
berkeley.edu

Hannah Doyle

  • BS Engineering Physics, Cornell University

  • PhD Student in EECS (primary mentor Ren Ng)

   hannahdoyle
at
berkeley.edu

Charlotte Wang

  • OD (Berkeley), BS (UCLA)

  • PhD Student in Vision Science

   yiyiwang
at
berkeley.edu
       

Staff

Pavan Tiruveedhula, Programmer/Analyst

  • MS (Bioengineering)

510-642-2825

[web]

pavanbabut at berkeley.edu

 

Previous Personnel

 

Zohreh Hosseinaee

  • PhD (Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2021)
  • postdoc (Vision Science, 2021-2023)

current position

Khang Huynh

  • PhD (Optics, University of Rochester, 2022)
  • postoc (Vision Science, 2022-2023)

Fabio Feroldi

  • PhD (Physics, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands)
  • postdoc (Vision Science, 2019-2023)

current position

Norick Bowers

  • MA (Psychology, Boston University)

  • PhD (Vision Science, May 2022)

current position

Nadav Ivzan

  • PhD (Bioengineering USC))
  • postdoc (CIVO fellow, 2020-2022)

John Erik Vanston

  • PhD (Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno)
  • postdoc (Vision Science, 2019-2022)

current position:

Gareth Hastings

  • OD (University of XXX, South Africa)
  • PhD (VIsion Science, University of Houston)
  • postdoc (CIVO fellow, 2019- 2022)

current position:

  • Apple, Cupertino, CA

Sanam Mozaffari

  • BS (Bioengineering, UCSD)

  • PhD (Vision Science, May 2021)

current position:

  • Google, Mountain View, CA
 

Ethan Bensinger

  • BS (Physics, Pitzer College)

  • PhD (Vision Science, May 2021)

current position:

Swati Bhargava, Optical Engineer

  • MS (Optics, University of Rochester)

current position:

  • PhD student CREOL, Orlando FL
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Katharina Foote

  • BS (Psychology, University of Washington)
  • PhD (Vision Science, July, 2019)

current position:
Alexandra Boehm

Ally Boehm

  • BS (Psychoilogy, UCSD)
  • PhD (Vision Science, May, 2019)
  • postdoc with Will Tuten (2019-2022)

current position:

  • Google, Mountain View, CA

Brian Schmidt

  • PhD (Neuroscience, University of Washington)
  • Postdoc (2016-2019)

current position:

  • iHeart Radio, NYC

Francesco LaRocca

  • PhD (Engineering, Duke University)
  • Postdoc (2016-2018)

current position:

  • Apple, Curpertino, CA

Volker Jaedicke

  • Postdoc (2017-2018)

current position:

  • Apple, Curpertino, CA
Kavitha Ratnam

Kavitha Ratnam

  • BS Bioengineering (UC Berkeley)

  • PhD (Vision Science, July, 2017)

current position:

  • Meta, (formerly Facebook, formerly Oculus Research), Redmond WA

 

Nicolas Bensaid

  • Postdoc (2015 - 2017)

current position:

  • Zeiss, Berlin, Germany
Taras Litvin

Taras Litvin

current position:

  • Clinical Professor, UC San Francisco
 

Jianqiang 'Jim' Ma

  • Visiting Scholar (Jan - Dec 2015)

current position:

  • Faculty, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Ningbo, University, Ningbo China

Markku Kilpelainen

  • Visiting Scholar (April - July, 2015)

current position:

  • Research Scientist, University of Helsinki

Christy Sheehy

  • BS, MS (Optics, University of Rochester)

  • PhD (Vision Science, UC Berkeley, 2015)

current position:

William Tuten

  • OD (Ohio State University)

  • MS (Ohio State University)

  • PhD (Vision Science, UC Berkeley, 2014)

  • Postdoc (2015-2016)

current position:

Ramkumar Sabesan

  • PhD (Optics, Univ of Rochester)

  • Postdoc (2014-2015)

current position:

Brandon Lujan

current position

Bhavna Antony

  • PhD (University of Iowa)

  • Postdoc (2013-2014)

current position:

Nicole Putnam

  • BS (Optics, Univ of Rochester)

  • MS (Optics, University of Arizona)

  • PhD (Vision Science, UC Berkeley, 2012)

current position:

Wolf Harmening

  • PhD (Biology, Aachen University)

  • Postdoc (2012)

current position

Adam Hickenbotham

current position:

Johnny Tam

  • BS, (UC San Deigo)

  • PhD (BioEngineering, 2011)

current position:

Silvestre Manzanera

  • PhD (University of Murcia, Spain)

  • Postdoc (UC Berkeley, 2011)

current position:

David Merino

  • PhD (Physics, University Galway)

  • Postdoc (UC Berkeley, 2011)

current position:

Kaccie Li

  • BS (Optics), BA (Math), (Univ of Rochester)

  • PhD (Vision Science, UC Berkeley, 2010)

current position

  • FDA

Ethan Rossi

  • BS (Brain & Cognitive Science, Univ of Rochester)

  • PhD (Vision Science, UC Berkeley, 2009)

current position

Yuhua Zhang

  • PhD (Precision Metrology & Instruments Engineering, Tianjin, China)

  • Postdoc & Research Associate (UC Berkeley, 2008)

current position

Joy Martin

  • OD, PhD (2006, Vision Science, Univ of Houston)

current position:

Kate Grieve

  • PhD (Physics)

  • Postdoc (UC Berkeley, 2007)

current position:

 

Abhiram Vilupuru

  • PhD  (Vision Science, Univ of Houston)

  • Postdoc (UC Berkeley, 2006)

current position:

  • Director, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, LensGen, Irvine, CA
 

Fernando Romero-Borja

  • PhD (Physics, Univ. of Constance, Germany)

  • Research Scientist (Univ of Houston, 1999-2004)

current position:

  • Professor, Houston Community College
 

Krishna Venkateswaran

  • PhD (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

  • Postdoc (Univ of Houston, 2004)

current position: