DR. TERI LAWTON – CV

DR. TERI LAWTON – CV

EDUCATION
1970-1974 – B.S. in Mathematics, B.S. in Psychology, U. of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, with highest honors.
1974-1983 – Ph.D. in Psychology, U. of California, Santa Barbara.
1984-1986 – Postdoctoral research, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1990-present – Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist, Perception Dynamics Institute
2000-2001 – Programmer/Analyst in vision research, San Jose State University.
1998-2000 – Founder and Chief Scientist, Perception Technologies, LLC.
1996-2003 – Consultant, in reading therapy, Technology Affiliates Program,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech.
1993-1998 – Research Faculty, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
1993-1994 – Vision Science Consultant, Rodin Remediation Academy,
Kerns, Switzerland.
1992-1994 – Consultant to SPIE, International Society for Optical Engineering. Technical organizer, conference chair, and editor of Proceedings from
Computational Vision Based on Neurobiology Meeting, Asilomar, CA, July 6-9, 1993.
1991-1992 – Assistant Professor, Center for Cognitive Neurosciences,
University of Oregon, Eugene.
1986-1990 – Member of the technical staff in human and robotic vision,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
1984-1986 – Resident Research Associate in Psychophysics,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
1983-1984 – Visiting Research Scientist in Psychophysics,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
1982 – Lecturer in Perception, Department of Psychology,
University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB).
1977-1982 – Member of Technical Staff (full-time) in human-machine systems modeling, Special Programs Department, General Research Co., Santa Barbara, CA.
1974-1983 – Graduate Student in vision research, Department of Psychology, UCSB
1974-1977 – Teaching Assistant, in perception, Department of Psychology, UCSB.
1972-1974 – Research Assistant, Mathematical Psychology Department,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

HONORS
Graduated with highest honors from the University of Michigan, 1973.
Award for the most distinguished undergraduate research dissertation,
U of Michigan, 1974.
National Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Award, 1984-1986.
NASA Certificates of Recognition for creative development of technical innovations: 1985,1988,1989,1990.
3 Certificates of Recognition from Ventura Unified School District for improving childrens’ reading, 1996

U.S. PATENTS
Method and Apparatus for Predicting the Direction of Movement in Machine Vision, #5,109,425, 4-28-92.
Methods & Apparatus for Diagnosing and Remediating Reading Disorders #6,045,515, #6,213,956 B1, 4-7-2000, 2001.

GRANTS AWARDED
1) National Academy of Sciences Resident Research Associate Award (1984-1986).
2) National Aeronautics and Space Administration Technology Utilization Grant
(1986-1990) entitled “Development of Low Vision Aid For the Partially Sighted”.
3) National Eye Institute Phase I Small Business Innovation Research Grant
(1991-1992) entitled “Low Vision Aid for Observers with Losses in Central Vision”.
4) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Phase I Small Business Innovation Research Grant (2002-2003) entitled “Remediation For Reading
Problems In Children”, ) R43 HD42906-01.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Society For Neurosciences (SFN), AAAS, Association of Educational Therapists (AET), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), International Dyslexia Association (IDA).

SESSIONS CHAIRED
Organized and Chaired Computational Vision Based On Neurobiology Meeting, and Sessions: Dynamic Object-Based Scene Analysis Using Multiple Attributes, and Dynamic Gain Control of Movement: Low Level Cortical Mechanisms, at Asilomar, CA July 6 – 9, 1993 . Sponsored by SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering), AFOSR and ONR.
Low Vision session at Ophthalmic and Visual Optics Meeting, Montery, CA.
February 20 – 21, 1993.
Glaucoma, Low Vision at Ophthalmic Technologies Conference in International Symposium on Biomedical Optics sponsored by SPIE, The International Society for Optical Engineering, Jan 19-20, 1992, Los Angeles, CA.
Neural Network Applications session at the IEEE Conference on Parallel Processing, April 4-5, 1990, Fullerton, CA.
Measurement of Vision Loss: Theory and Practice session at International Symposium on Low Vision at the School of Optometry, University of Waterloo, June 25-27, 1986.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS
ARVO/Vision Sciences Society (24 presentations), American Academies of Ophthalmology and Optometry (2 presentations), Society for Neurosciences (5 presentations), International Low Vision conferences (3 presentations), IDA (1 presentations), Noninvasive Assessment of the Visual System (2 presentations), Optical Society of America (7 presentations), European Conference on Visual Perception (4 presentations), Psychonomics Society (1 presentation), SPIE (4 presentations), Mathematical Psychology Assoc (2 presentations), Systems Approach to Vision (1 presentation), Several University presentations: eg. University of Oregon, Caltech, UC Berkeley, UCSB, UC San Diego, U. of Rochester, U. of Michigan, Johns Hopkins U., U. of Colorado, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, U. of Cambridge, and NASA Centers.

VIDEOS
1) “Enhancing Sight”, directed and produced by NASA, Summarizes research on subjects with low (poor) vision.
2) Training videos to teach children computer-based movement and reading rate exercises that enhance reading performance.

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