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Announcing invited speakers at VSS 2026

VSS 2026 begins tomorrow! We are pleased to announce invited speakers at this year’s workshop.

Dr. Judy Fan is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her CogTools Lab aims to reverse engineer the human cognitive toolkit—in particular, how people use physical representations of thought to learn, communicate, and solve problems. They use a combination of approaches from cognitive science, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence to achieve deeper understanding of quintessentially human ways of thinking and imagining. Dr. Fan’s work spans a huge variety of topics, often bridging cognitive science, vision science, and visualization research.

Michael A. Cohen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience at Amherst College. His research focuses on understanding the limits of perception, memory, and cognition using fMRI, EEG, psychophysics, and computational modeling. He asks questions like, “what is the capacity of visual cognition?” and “what is the bandwidth of perceptual experience?”

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Invited speaker at VSS 2024: Dr. Keisuke Fukuda

We’re excited to announce our second invited speaker, Dr. Keisuke Fukuda!

Dr. Fukuda’s research focuses on human’s ability to select goal-related information from a plethora of irrelevant information (selective attention), represent and manipulate the selected information (working memory), and store and retrieve the information later in time (long-term memory). While humans are quite good at processing information in a goal-oriented manner, their ability (particularly his own!) is far from perfect. Dr. Fukuda’s research seeks to uncover the mechanisms of such imperfection by combining experimental psychophysics with electrophysiological recordings (e.g., scalp EEG, ERP), computational modeling, and individual differences approach. Dr. Fukuda is also interested in assisting and improving human information processing by translating the findings and techniques in cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

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Invited speaker at VSS 2024: Dr. Jessica Witt

We’re excited to announce VisXVision’s first invited speaker at VSS 2024! Dr. Jessica Witt is the PI of the Witt Data Visualization Lab and is a Professor in Psychology at Colorado State University (CSU). Dr. Witt earned her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2007, and has been at CSU since 2012. She won the American Psychological Association’s (APAs’) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (2017), the Janet Taylor Spence Award for transformative early career contributions from APS (2015) and the Steve Yantis Early Career Award from the Psychonomic Society (2014). Her new line of research focuses on basic graph design and understanding uncertainty. The work on uncertainty is currently being applied to medical decisions and health disparities, as well as climate and weather predictions.