Meet our Team Members!

Madison Elliott (Graduate Student)

Madison is a 3rd year PhD student at The University of British Columbia Visual Cognition Lab. She is leading all of the research on this webpage. Madison is excited about human vision, data visualization, and working at the intersection of psychology and computer science. She believes that basic research and real-world applications can go hand-in-hand, and hopes to discover more about the limits of attentional processing by studying the perception of multi-class scatterplots, and more!

Ford Atwater (Research Assistant & Project Leader)

Ford is a fifth-year Computer Science student in the Computational Intelligence and Design stream. When he’s not programming, he’s usually playing music or writing about it. You can take a look at some other stuff he’s done at his website: http://fordat.co/. Check out some of the awesome analysis work Ford has done so far at the VCL.

Matyas Barta (Research Assistant)

Matyas is a 4th-year Cognitive Systems major, with a focus on brain and cognition. He is hoping to further his knowledge in behavioral and cognitive psychology, as well as computer science, to explore vision science and Human-Computer Interaction. He is also interested in data visualization and data analysis.

Past Members

Caitlin Coyiuto (Psychology Directed Studies)

Caitlin is a first year HCI graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. Caitlin graduated from Wellesley College in 2016 with a BA in Neuroscience, and graduated her second-degree BCS(ICS) program at UBC in 2019. Her background in the cognitive sciences makes her naturally inquisitive of the interaction between human behavior and technology. Specifically, she is interested in understanding how human-centered practices can be applied to scientific software development, and whether a user-driven approach can improve an end-user programmer’s experience.

Wongi Zewde (Computer Science Directed Studies)

Wongi is in her last year at UBC, studying Mathematical Science (Computer Science, Math and Stats combined). During her internship at SAP she learned to appreciate how useful the programming skills she gained from her courses and personal learning were. She joined the Correlation team in VCL to continue applying her skills in real life research.

Zoe Zhao (Research Assistant)

Zoe is a fifth year computer science student. Zoe applied skills she learned from internships and courseworks to help improve the quality of the software tool set for researchers at VCL.

Kim DeRosa (Research Assistant)

Kim is a recent graduate of the Mind, Language, and Computation stream of the UBC Cognitive systems program. She has been working in the VCL for two years as a research assistant on the perception of correlation project. Kim is interested in designing and developing data visualizations that are informed by vision science, and she hopes to eventually apply perception science to the creation of visual art and music.