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Dr. Alice O'Toole is the Aage and Margareta Møller Professor and Endowed Chair in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas. Her research focuses on face recognition in humans and machines, neural processing of faces and bodies, and computational models of perception. She holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Brown University (1988) and has held tenure since 1999. Her work bridges cognitive neuroscience with AI, emphasizing algorithmic comparisons to human performance.
Dr. O'Toole's research interests include:
- Face recognition mechanisms in humans and deep learning systems
- Neural correlates of high-level visual processing
- Forensic facial identification expertise
- Bias mitigation in face recognition algorithms
- Body shape perception and social trait inferences
Notable achievements include:
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (1994–1996)
- French Embassy Postdoctoral Fellowship (1988–1989)
- Over $2.5M in federal research funding (NIH, DoD, NIST)
- Editorial roles at British Journal of Psychology and IEEE Transactions on Biometrics
Her lab, the Face Perception Research Lab, collaborates internationally and has produced influential work on cross-race effects, algorithmic bias, and forensic facial analysis. Current projects include comparing human/expert performance to state-of-the-art AI systems in face recognition tasks.
