banner text: the visual cognition lab @ illinois
Faculty
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Daniel J. Simons [he/him/his]
Professor of Psychology, Head of the Visual Cognition Laboratory
web: dansimons.com
email: prof.simons@gmail.com
Graduate Students
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Yifan Ding
Doctoral student
email: yifanding097@gmail.com
Undergraduate Students
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Geneva Xie
Undergrad researcher
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Alexander Sticha
Undergrad researcher
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Kylie Ferris
Undergrad researcher
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Julia Toth
Undergrad researcher
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Evenlyn Sleezer
Undergrad researcher
Lab Alumns
Postdocs
Michael Silverman, Mt. Sinai Hospital (2001-2002)
Lester Loschky, Kansas State University (2002-2003)
PhD Students
Stephen Mitroff, George Washington University (2002)
Steven Most, UNSW Australia (2002)
Steven Franconeri, Northwestern University (2003)
Xiaoang Irene Wan, Tsinghua University (2007)
Mike Ambinder (2008)
Richard Yao (2013)
Matt Windsor, Sandia National Labs (2014)
Melinda Jenson, (2014)
Katherine Wood, Signifyd (2020)
Masters Students
Yifan (Catherine) Yang (2021)
Chenwei Zhu (2023)
Yifan Ding (2023)
Yuji "Victoria" Yao (2024)
Undergraduate Thesis Students
Kristoffer Myczek, Honors Thesis (2006)
Natalie Henry, Honors Thesis (2011)
Nicole Hakim, Honors Thesis (2015)
Carly Graham, Honors Thesis (2015)
Sivani Aluru, Independent study (2015)
Yi "Violet" Zhao, Honors Thesis (2017)
Mingcheng "Steven" Yu, Senior thesis (2018)
Peter Yoo, Senior thesis (2019)
Victoria Halewicz, Honors Thesis (2019)
Alex Anderson, Independent study (2020)
Bisma Munir, Independent study (2020)
Citlalli Ruiz, Independent study (2021)
Visitors
Kranti Saran, Visiting graduate student (2006-2008)
Alex Marchant, Visiting graduate student (2008)
Lisa Maccari, Visiting graduate student (2009)
Karen Wagner, Visiting graduate student (2019)