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Wolfe Lab 2025
The current Wolfe Lab:
Zeyd, Dr. Wolfe, Ava, Cailey, and Victoria. Ava is heading off to Brown, we will miss you!
(Please hover over upcoming names for their corresponding email)
Principal Investigator
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Jeremy Wolfe
Jeremy Wolfe is the head of the lab. He is Professor of Ophthalmology and of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Wolfe received an AB in Psychology in 1977 from Princeton and his PhD in Psychology in 1981 from MIT under the supervision of Richard Held. 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. He taught Intro. Psychology and other courses for 25 years, mostly at MIT. Wolfe is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of AAAS, APA (Div 1, 3, & 6), and APS. He has been President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS), President of the Eastern Psychological Association, Chair of the Board of the Psychonomic Society and a member of the Board of the Vision Sciences Society. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI) and was Editor of Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. Wolfe also serves on the North American Board of the Union for Reform Judaism. He is married to Julie Sandell; Provost of Suffolk University in Boston (Information accurate in March, 2022). They have three sons: Ben, Philip, and Simon. Wolfe’s office contains more stuffed animals
than one would expect in the office of a grown man.
Click HERE for Dr. Wolfe's CV (2022).
Email Dr. Wolfe
Research Fellows
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Victoria Jacoby
Victoria received her Ph.D. from UCLA where she worked with Dr. Phil Kellman. Her research has focused on optimizing perceptual learning in real-world categorization tasks, including facial identification and skin cancer classification. As a postdoctoral research fellow, she is interested in investigating visual search within the context of medical image perception and exploring the role of categories in search tasks. Outside of the lab, Victoria enjoys visiting new National Parks (current total: 28/63) and MLB ballparks (current total: 14/30).
Research Assistants
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Cailey Tennyson
Cailey received her Bachelor's degree in Computational Cognitive Science and a minor in English from UC Davis where she also worked as a research assistant in the Visual Cognition Lab under Dr. Joy Geng. Her research utilized VR to analyze the freeze behaviors that occur during real-world search. Outside of work, Cailey loves working with animals and continuing to develop her bowling skills.
Cailey is currently on the hunt to join a psychology or neuroscience lab for her Ph.D. in fall of 2026. She is interested in studying memory and perception.
Visiting Professors
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Jian Chen
Jian's core work focuses on understanding how humans see, understand, and interact with information. She collaborate with colleagues in scientific areas of physics, biology, and medicine. Recently, Jian began to study mode of optimal search mediated by visualizations. She also attempts to explore how to aid people to acquire knowledge from multiple-sources (e.g., figures, tables, and texts in scholarly article cohorts).
Lab Alumni
Former Principal Investigators
Todd Horowitz
Former Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
Injae Hong'22-'25
Delgermaa Demchig'22-'23
Daniel Ernst'20-'21
Iris Wiegand'17-'18
Yung-Hao Yang'17-'18
Krista Ehinger'13-'16
Preeti Sareen'13-'15
Matthew S. Cain'13-'14
Maria Nordfang'13-'14
Trafton Drew'11-'14
Melissa Le-Hoa Võ'10-'14
Michelle Greene'09-'11
Karla Evans'08-'13
Riccardo Pedersini'08-'10
Yair Pinto'08-'10
Ester Reijnen'08-'09
Piers Howe'07-'10
Anina Rich'05-'07
David Fencsik'03-'07
Evan Palmer'03-'07
Melina Kunar'03-'06
Aude Oliva'00-'02
Nayantara Santhi'00-'02
Gary Randall'98-'00
Peter Brawn'98-'00
Former Visiting Graduate Students
Jeunghwan Choi'24
Yonsei University, Korea
Jonathan Li'20
U Melbourne
Daniela Gresch'19
U Munich
Levi Kumle'19
Goethe-Univ.
Hsing-Fen Tu'19
Max Plank Insti.
Aoqi Li'19
Wuhan U
Charlie Ludowici'19
U Sydney
Inga Korolczuk'19
Bangor U
María Quirós Godoy'18
U Autó. Madrid
Caroline Seidel'17
Goethe-Univ.
Erica Westenberg'17
U Munich
Bochao Zou'15-'17'
Zhe Huang'16
U Munich
Jinxia Zhang'12-'14
Nanjing Univ. of Sci. & Tech.
Kilian Semmelmann'12, '13
U Munich
Dejan Draschkow'12
U Munich
Lisa Pfannmüller'12
U Munich
Serap Yigit-Elliott'11-'12
U Washington
Kazuya Ishibashi'10
Kobe Univ.
Maria Nordfang'10
U Copenhagen
Patricia Graf'08-'09
Ludwig-Maximilians Univ.
Greg Gancarz'93-'96
Boston Univ.
Corinna Lathan'89-'90
Former Visiting Professors
Jan Philipp Röer'23
Beatriz Gil-Gómez de Liaño'17-'20
Igor Utochkin'15-'18
Nurit Gronau'17-'18
Longsheng Wei'16-'17'
Ruggero Micheletto'15-'16'
Sara Fabrikant'13
Maria Falikman'04
Former Visiting Post-Docs
Oryah Lancry'23-'24
Ellen Kok'16
Matthew B. Thompson'14
Michael Zehetleitner'09
Yair Pinto'07
Former Research Assistants
Ava Mitra'22-'25
Nathan Trinkl'22-'24
Wanyi Lyu'19-'22
Sneha Suresh'19-'21
Makaela Nartker'17-'19
Hayden Schill'16-'18
Abla Alaoui-Soce'15-'17
Avi Aizenman'13-'16
Emilie Josephs'13-'15
Sage Boettcher'12-'14
Corbin Cunningham'10-'12
Ashley Sherman'10-'12
Lori Myers'09-'10
Erica Kreindel'09-'11
Yoana Kuzmova'07-'10
Michael Cohen'07-'09
Michael Van Wert'05-'08
Steve Flusberg'04-'06
Skyler Place'04-'06
Kristin Michod'03-'05
Sarah Klieger'03-'04
Naomi Kenner'02-'05
Randy Birnkrant'02-'04
Jennifer DiMase'01-'03
Helga Arsenio'00-'02
Megan Hyle'00-'02
Serena Butcher'99-'01
George Alvarez'98-'00
Asia Wong'98-'99
Nikki Klempen'96-'98
Kari Dahlen'96-'98
Sara Bennett'94-'96
Alexander Bilsky'92-'94
Stacia Friedman-Hill'89-'92
Marni Stewart'88-'91
Sue Franzel'86-'88