Ahna Girshick
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Girshick earned her Ph.D. in Vision Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007.[3] Under the advisory of Prof. Marty Banks, her research focused on understanding visual processing in the brain.[4][5] Her academic work contributed to advancements in computational neuroscience including her highly cited Nature Neuroscience paper written during her postdoctoral studies with Michael S. Landy and Eero Simoncelli at New York University, "Cardinal rules: visual orientation perception reflects knowledge of environmental statistics."[6][7]
In 1992, as a high school at South High School, she interned at The Geometry Center under Tamara Munzner and participated in their Summer Institute with knot theorist John Horton Conway[8]. Girshick earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis on computer graphics, AI and human-computer interaction. She studied under Victoria Interrante, with whom she developed a algorithm to render non-photorealistic pen-and-ink style line drawings in the style of the Old Masters.[9] Later she worked on perceptual research and computer vision algorithms for self-driving cars at Nissan's (since closed) Cambridge Basic Research Lab which was embedded in MIT CSAIL.[1]
Between her research areas in computer science, perceptual neuroscience, and later genetics, Ahna Girshick has published over 20 peer-reviewed publications, four U.S. patents.[10][11]
