Jeremy Wolfe, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School; Director of the Visual Attention Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital in the Department of Surgery
About
Jeremy Wolfe, PhD, is Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Visual Attention Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Department of Surgery. Wolfe received an AB in Psychology in 1977 from Princeton and his PhD in Psychology in 1981 from MIT. His research focuses on visual search and visual attention with a particular interest in socially important search tasks in areas such as medical image perception (e.g. cancer screening), security (e.g. baggage screening), and intelligence. This research has been funded since 1982 by NIH (NEI, NIMH, NCI), NSF, AFOSR (Air Force), ONR (Navy), ARO (Army), Homeland Security, and the Nat. Geospatial Agency as well as by IBM, Google, Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, & GE. Wolfe taught Introductory Psychology and other courses for 25 years, mostly at MIT. He has served as Past President or Chair of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS), the Psychonomic Soc, APA Division 3, Eastern Psychological Assoc, NAS Panel on Soldier Systems. He has served on the Governing Boards of the Vision Sciences Society, APA Div 1 and 6. Wolfe was Founding Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI), the newest Psychonomic Society journal, and Past-Editor of Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. Wolfe also serves on the Board of the North American Board of the Union for Reform Judaism. He was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
Disclosures for 2024 CVI Conference: Building Meaningful Recognition
Jeremy Wolfe is not being paid for his presentation, but his registration fees are being waived.
Jeremy Wolfe does not have any nonfinancial relationships to disclose.