Andrew B. Watson


Biography

Dr. Watson is currently a Senior Scientist for Vision Research and Director of the Vision Group at NASA Ames Research Center. He studied perceptual psychology and physiology at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 1977), and did postdoctoral research at Cambridge and Stanford Universities. Dr. Watson conducts research on visual perception and its application to coding, understanding, and display of visual information. Recent accomplishments include a computational model of human visual motion sensing, and technology for perceptual optimization of digital image compression technologies. He has served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Vision, and on program committees for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the Society for Information Display, the Optical Society of America, and the European Conference on Visual Perception. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and an editor of the journals Visual Neuroscience , Journal of Mathematical Psychology, and Displays: Technology and Applications. With Albert J. Ahumada, Jr, he was the recipient of the 1990 H. Julian Allen Award, and in 1994 was appointed Associate Fellow of Ames Research Center.


Contact Information

(650) 604-5419
(650) 604-3323 (fax)
abwatson@mail.arc.nasa.gov
MS 262-2 NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000


Selected Publications