Mark Changizi Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio Area

2AI Labs, Institute for the Study of Human and Machine Cognition, is a think tank and start-up generator co-founded by him with the aim of producing innovative research in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and spinning off start-ups. VINO OPTICS was their first start-up, based on patents emanating from his color research, and there are others on the conveyor belt including on affective computing and emotional artificial intelligence.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Lab and consulting firm bringing cutting edge insights from the cognitive and brain sciences to the next generation of human-centered technology. Has worked with more than 50 companies, with applications in human factors, consumer experience, UX design, human-machine interface, affective computing, emotion-machine interface, health, cosmetics, entertainment, movies, video games.

Columbus, Ohio Area

This medical device company emanates from a major 2006 discovery of his that primate red-green vision evolved for detecting oxygenation modulations of blood under the skin so that primates could see emotions, health and state. Out of that discovery, he and a colleague were able to patent the first and only optical filter technology that passively augments visibility of these oxygenation modulations, as well as related technology. VINO OPTICS serves two main markets. (1) Medical personnel wear their vein glasses, protective eyewear that enhances visibility of veins and health signs. They also sell distinct wound care technology that augments visibility of blood pooling and poor circulation. Their vein glasses technology has been shown to work in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. (2) Colorblind people wear one of their technologies which enhances the signal that red-green vision is for and that color deficients are deficient at. Unlike their competitors, their tech has been shown to aid colorblindness in Invest Ophth Vis Sci.

Pasadena, Ca

Consultant developing and testing novel technology for enhanced perception of a motorist’s surrounding, for safety and a richer experience. It involved devising new theoretical technologies often based around his earlier discoveries in visual and auditory perception, and directing experiments to test the efficacy of those technologies.

Hobart, Australia

Invited by MONA founder, David Walsh, to be one of four external guest curators for a six month exhibition, On the Origin of Art, at his famous art museum in Hobart, Australia. The show had international press, and highlighted his research on the origins of writing, speech, music, and the arts. It led to a joint book with the same title with the other invited guest curators, Steven Pinker, Geoffrey Miller, and Brian Boyd.

Troy, Ny

Researcher in cognitive science, as well as two courses per semester teaching. Many publications while here, as well as his first trade (i.e., non-academic-monograph) book, VISION rEVOLUTION, about the function and design of vision, covering many of his own discoveries in the area of visual perception, including why we evolved color vision, why we see illusions, why some animals (like us) have forward-facing eyes, how we came to have writing.

Pasadena, Ca

Mark was awarded a two year Sloan-Swartz fellowship at Caltech. He then extended it to two more years via winning an NIH fellowship. He collaborated with vision scientist Shinsuke Shimojo. With great independence, and inspiration from those around him, a wide variety of his discoveries came to fruition while here.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Researcher in the brain sciences, Mark worked in the lab of Dale Purves, and then in the lab of Ted Hall. He studied vision and the ontogeny of thirst and hunger behavior, and had tremendous freedom to work on a variety of other research areas, leading for example to his “perceiving the present” work on why we see illusions.

Fairfax, Va

Researcher in neurotechnology and computational neuroscience. Developed novel computational and statistical methods and software for detecting the presence of correlated activity in neuronal populations for a new neuronal ensemble recording device.

County Cork, Ireland

Researcher in cognitive and computer science, as well as one introductory computer algorithms course per semester teaching. Worked here on his first book, The Brain from 25000 Feet.

College Park, Md

Theoretical neurobiology research with Professor Chris Cherniak on the organization of nervous systems. Led to two papers, one on the large scale structure of neurons, and another on coronary arteries.

College Park, Md

Lecturer for logic, education-major math, and teaching assistant for calculus.

Batavia, Il

Worked on many projects at Experiment 771.

Fairfax, Va

Lab instructor for physics and astronomy.

Phd, Applied Math

Mathematics

B.S., Physics, Math

Physics, Math

H.S. Diploma