Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision
Key Note Speakers...
Professor Mandyam Srinivasan
Professor Srinivasan's research focuses on the principles of visual processing, perception and cognition in simple natural systems, and on the application of these principles to machine vision and robotics. He holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, a Master's degree in Electronics from the Indian Institute of Science, a Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University, a D.Sc. in Neuroethology from the Australian National University, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Zurich.

Professor Srinivasan is presently Professor of Visual Neuroscience at the Queensland Brain Institute and the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of the University of Queensland.

Among Professor Srinivasan's awards are Fellowships of the Australian Academy of Science, of the Royal Society of London, and of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, the 2006 Australian Prime Minister’s Science Prize, and the 2008 U.K. Rank Prize for Optoelectronics.
Professor Shinsuke Shimojo
Professor Shimojo completed his doctoral degree in 1985 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has since worked at Nagoya University, the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Harvard University and now at the California Institute of Technology.

Professor Shimojo's research has been published in the world's premier Neuroscience journals, including Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, Current Biology, and the Proceedings of National Academy of Science USA.
Professor Hidehiko Komatsu
Professor Komatsu completed his doctoral degree in 1982 at Osaka University. He has since worked at the National Eye Institute USA, and now at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan.

Professor Komatsu's research has been published in the world's premier Neuroscience journals, including Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Proceedings of National Academy of Science USA, the Journal of Neuroscience, and the Journal of Neurophysiology.