Miguel P. Eckstein

Miguel P. Eckstein is a Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His research focuses on computational human vision, visual attention, and perceptual learning, with applications in medical imaging and bio-inspired computer systems. He holds affiliations with the Vision and Image Understanding Lab and has served on editorial boards for journals like Journal of Vision and Journal of the Optical Society of America A.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degrees in Physics and Psychology, UC Berkeley
• Doctoral Degree in Cognitive Psychology, UCLA

Research interests integrate behavioral psychophysics, EEG, fMRI, and computational modeling to understand visual perception and decision-making. Applied work includes improving diagnostic accuracy in medical imaging and developing bio-inspired AI systems.

Awards & Recognition:

• National Academy of Sciences Troland Award (2019)
• Guggenheim Fellowship (2021)
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award

He has published over 170 articles across interdisciplinary journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behavior, and Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS).