Anqi Zhang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Advisor
Miguel EcksteinResearch Area
Cognition, Perception, and Cognitive Neuroscience
Campus Affiliations
Vision and Image Understanding LabBiography
Dr. Anqi Zhang received his Ph.D. in Physics under the mentorship of Dr. Bill Geisler, and a Master's Degree in Statistics, both at The University of Texas at Austin. Then he moved to University of California, Santa Barbara and works as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Miguel Eckstein.
With a diverse yet specialized training background in Physics, Statistics, and vision science, Anqi is committed to advancing understanding of human visual search, and translating the discoveries to medical image perception, especially helping radiologists to detect abnormality more efficiently and accurately.
His dissertation elaborates behavior and modeling of human visual detection and search in natural backgrounds. He is applying Bayesian Decision Theory, Signal Detection Theory, behavioral psychophysics, and computational modeling to investigate search behaviors of human and models in 3D images and layers of 2D images (common in medical imaging). His long-term research goals encompass more complex cases of human visual search that involve navigation in and modification to the environment, and communication among searchers.
