Dr. Ronald Rensink University of British Columbia, Canada

Ronald Rensink is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of British Columbia and then completed his postdoc with Patrick Cavanagh in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. He... read morethen joined Cambridge Basic Research (CBR) before returning to the University of British Columbia in 2000. Dr. Rensink's research focuses on vision and his approach is to examine biological systems to see how they operate and from a computational point of view see if they embody more general principles. These general principles can then provide a scientific basis for the design of visual interfaces that can interact with human visual systems in an optimal way.