John K. Tsotsos

I moved to York University in Toronto in January 2000 to become the Director of York's Centre for Vision Research - a spectacular collection of scientists and labs from many disciplines within vision science - with a primary appointment in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering. I served as Director until November 2006, where among other accomplishments, I defined the administrative, financial, and research infrastructure of the centre, expanded its membership, and shepherded the centre through a major external evaluation where it was ranked within the top six inter-disciplinary vision research centres in the world. I currently hold the NSERC Tier I Canada Research Chair in Computational Vision and am also an Adjunct Professor in both the departments of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences and of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. In June 2008, I was named Distinguished Research Professor of Vision Science at York University. I have published many papers, six con