Curriculum Vitae MiYoung Kwon 1

Curriculum Vitae MiYoung Kwon 1 MiYoung Kwon Address: 20 Staniford Street Boston, MA 02114, USA E-Mail: miyoungkwon02@gmail.com Homepage:http://scholar.harvard.edu/miyoung_kwon PRESENT POSITION POSITION TO BE HELD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Schepens Eye Research Institute/Massachusetts Eye and Ear Department of Ophthalmology Harvard Medical School Oct. 2014 Assistant Professor EDUCATION Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine University of Alabama, Birmingham 2005-2010 University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities, Minnesota Ph.D. in Psychology (Cognitive and Biological Area) with a minor in Statistics (GPA: 3.84/4.0) Advisor: Gordon E. Legge 2003 University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities, Minnesota B.A. in Psychology (GPA: 3.90/4.0) RESEARCH INTERESTS Vision and Cognitive neuroscience: o Pattern recognition and eye movements in peripheral vision o Binocular vision o Brain plasticity and adaptability following visual deficits

Curriculum Vitae MiYoung Kwon 2 o Visual impairment, rehabilitation (age-related macular degeneration, and amblyopia) and development of clinical assessment tools o An ideal observer model of vision RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2012-Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow Schepens Eye Research Institute Department of Ophthalmology Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Advisor: Peter Bex 2010-2012 Postdoctoral Research Associate Functional and Computational Vision Lab, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Advisor: Bosco S. Tjan 2005-2010 Graduate Research Assistant University of Minnesota Low Vision Research Lab, Minneapolis, MN Advisor: Gordon E. Legge 2008 Graduate Research Assistant Visual Cognition Lab, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Advisor: Yuhong Jiang 2003-2005 Undergraduate Research Assistant University of Minnesota Low Vision Research Lab, Minneapolis, MN Advisor: Gordon E. Legge 2002 Undergraduate Research Assistant Vision and Attention Lab, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Advisor: Sheng He OTHER RESEARCH TRAINING 2013 (Fall) Introduction to Clinical Investigation Course sponsored by Harvard Catalyst, the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center. AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS 2011 University of Minnesota Graduate School s Best Dissertation Award in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Education

Curriculum Vitae MiYoung Kwon 3 2010 Vision Sciences Society Student Travel Award Sponsored by Elsevier/Vision Research 2006-2010 Gough Travel Award (University of Minnesota) 2006-2007 Gloria J. Randahl Fellowship Sponsored by Dept. of Psychology, University of Minnesota 2006 Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) Sponsored by College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Reviewing-Journals: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics Brain and Cognition Development Science Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science Journal of Vision (recognized as Exceptionally Good Review ) Optometry & Vision Science Scientific Reports Vision Research Reviewing-Grants: 2012-2013 Earmarked Research Grant (Hong Kong) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Center for Cognitive Sciences (CCS) at the University of Minnesota Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

Curriculum Vitae MiYoung Kwon 4 Vision Sciences Society (VSS) PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed Journal Articles: 1. Kwon, M., Bao, P., Millin, R., & Tjan, B.S. (under review). Radial-tangential anisotropy of crowding in the early visual areas. Journal of Neurophysiology 2. Kwon, M, Lu, Z.-L., Miller, A., Kazlas, M., Hunter, D.G., & Bex, P.J. (2014). Assessing binocular interaction in amblyopia and its clinical feasibility. PLOS ONE. 9(6): e100156. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100156 3. Kwon, M., Nandy, A.S., & Tjan, B.S. (2013). Rapid and persistent adaptability of human oculomotor control in response to simulated central field loss. Current Biology. 23, 1663-1669. 4. Kwon, M., & Legge, G.E. (2013). Higher contrast requirements for recognizing low-pass filtered letters. Journal of Vision, 13, 1-15. 5. Kwon, M., Ramachandra, C., Satgunam, P.N, Mel, B.W, Peli, E., Tjan, B.S. (2012). Contour enhancement benefits peripheral vision for older adults with simulated central loss. Optometry & Vision Science. 89, 1374-1384. 6. Kwon, M., & Legge, G.E. (2012). Spatial-frequency requirements for reading revisited. Vision Research, 62, 139-147. 7. Kwon, M., & Legge, G.E. (2011). Spatial-frequency cutoff requirements for pattern recognition in central and peripheral vision. Vision Research, 51, 1995-2007. 8. Jiang, Y.H., Kwon, M., Shim, W.-M., & Won, B.-Y. (2010). Redundancy effect in the perception and memory of visual objects in clutter. Visual Cognition, 18, 1233-1252. 9. Lee, H-W., Kwon, M., Legge, G.E. & Gefroh, J.J. (2010). Training improves reading speed in peripheral vision: Is it due To attention? Journal of Vision, 10, 1-15. 10. Peng, Z., Min, B., Kwon, M., He, S., & Engel, S. (2009). Effects of orientationspecific visual deprivation induced with altered reality. Current Biology, 19, 1956-1960.

Curriculum Vitae MiYoung Kwon 5 11. Kwon, M., Legge, G.E., Fang, F., Cheong, A.M.Y., & He, S. (2009). Adaptive changes in visual cortex following prolonged contrast reduction. Journal of Vision, 9, 1-16. 12. Kwon, M., Legge, G.E., & Dubbels, B.R. (2007). Developmental changes in the visual span for reading. Vision Research, 47, 2889-2900. Manuscripts in progress: 13. Kwon, M., Wiecek, E., Dakin, S.C., & Bex, PJ. (to be submitted in July 2014). Spatial-frequency dependent interocular suppression in amblyopia revealed by a novel dichoptic letter chart. 14. Kwon, M., & Bex, PJ. (to be submitted in July 2014). A novel method to quantify visual-field and spatial-frequency dependent suppression in amblyopia. 15. Kwon, M, Lesmes, L., Miller, A., Kazlas, M., Chen, K., Dorr, M., Lu, Z.-L., Hunter, D.G., & Bex, PJ. (to be submitted in July 2014). Clinical value of contrast sensitivity assessment in amblyopia. 16. Kwon, M, Lu, Z.-L., A., Kazlas, M., Hunter, D.G., & Bex, P.J. (to be submitted in August 2014). Local and global spatial distortions in amblyopia. 17. Kwon, M, Lu, Z.-L., & Bex, P.J. (to be submitted in September 2014). Monocular and binocular eye movements in amblyopia. Book Chapters: 1. Legge, G.E., Cheung, S-H., Chung, S.T.L, Lee, H-W., Gefroh, J.J., & Kwon, M. (2008). Training peripheral vision to read, Proceedings of the Blindness, Brain Plasticity, and Spatial Function, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associate. Doctoral Dissertation: Patent: Kwon, M. (2010). Spatial-frequency bandwidth requirements for pattern recognition. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota. University of Minnesota Graduate School s Best Dissertation Award in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Education 2014 (Provisional) Quantification of inter-ocular suppression in binocular vision impairment.

Curriculum Vitae MiYoung Kwon 6 CONFERENCE PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS 1. Kwon, M, Wiecek, E., Dakin, S.C., & Bex, PJ. (2014). A novel method to quantify spatial-frequency dependent binocular imbalance in amblyopia. [Poster presentation]. Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. 2. Kwon, M, Lesmes, L., Miller, A., Kazlas, M., Dorr, M. Hunter, D.G., Lu, Z.-L., & Bex, PJ. (2013). Contrast sensitivity deficits in amblyopia. [Talk presentation]. European Conference for Visual Perception, Bremen, Germany. 3. Harrison, W.J., Kwon, M., & Bex, P.J. (2013). The influence of eye movements on contrast sensitivity and gain response in peripheral vision. [Poster presentation]. European Conference for Visual Perception, Bremen, Germany. 4. Tjan, B.S., Nandy, A.S., Kwon, M. & Chung, S.T.L (2013). Suboptimal Image Encoding in Peripheral Vision. [Talk presentation]. Asia Pacific Conference on Vision, Suzhou, China. 5. Kwon, M, Lesmes, L., Miller, A., Kazlas, M., Dorr, M. Hunter, D.G., Lu, Z.-L., & Bex, PJ. (2013). Rapid assessment of core visual deficits amblyopia. [Talk presentation]. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Seattle, WS, USA. 6. Kwon, M., Ramachandra, C., Mel, B.W, & Tjan, B.S. (2012). Contour enhancement benefits peripheral vision task for older adults. [Poster presentation]. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA. 7. Kwon, M., Bao, P., Millin, R., & Tjan, B.S. (2011). Asymmetry in the spatial extent of crowding in the early visual areas. [Talk presentation]. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, USA. 8. Kwon, M., Tjan, B.S., & Nandy, A.S. (2011). Changes in crowding zone at the eccentric retinal loci of subjects with simulated central scotoma. [Talk presentation]. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA. 9. Tjan, B.S, Kwon, M., & Nandy, A.S. (2011). Changes in oculomotor behavior induced by a simulated central scotoma. [Poster presentation]. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA. 10. Kwon, M., & Legge, G.E. (2011). Spatial-frequency requirement for reading revisted. [Poster presentation]..association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. 11. Kwon, M., & Legge, G.E. (2010). Trade-off between spatial resolution and grayscale coding for letter recognition. [Talk presentation]. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA.

Curriculum Vitae MiYoung Kwon 7 12. Kwon, M., & Legge, G.E. (2010). Spatial-frequency bandwidth requirement for letter and face recognition in central and peripheral vision. [Talk presentation]. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. 13. Kwon, M., Legge, G.E., Fang, F., Cheong, A.M.Y., & He. S. (2009). Identifying the mechanism of adaptation to prolonged contrast reduction. [Poster presentation]. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA. 14. Kwon, M., Kalia, A., & Legge, G.E. (2008). Blurry faces are sometimes recognized better than high-resolution faces. [Poster presentation].vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, USA. 15. Peng, Z., Min, B., Kwon, M., He, S., & Engel, S. (2008). Orientation specific visual deprivation increases sensitivity in adult humans. [Poster presentation]. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, USA. 16. Jiang, Y.H., Kwon, M., & Shim, W.-M. (2008). Perception and memory of visual objects in clutter. Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL, USA. 17. Kwon, M., Fang, F., Cheong, A.M.Y., Legge, G.E. & He. S. (2007). The Impact of Prolonged Contrast Reduction on Visual Contrast Coding. [Talk presentation]. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA. 18. Kwon, M., & Legge, G.E. (2006). Developmental Changes in the Size of the Visual Span for Reading: Effects of Crowding. [Poster presentation]. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA. 19. Cheung, S.-H., Kwon, M., & Legge, G.E. (2006). Aging Effect on MNREAD Parameters. [Poster presentation] Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. 20. Kwon, M., Legge, G.E., & Dubbels, B.R. (2005). Developmental Changes in the Visual Span for Reading. [Poster presentation]. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA. 21. Lee, H-W., Gefroh, J.J., Legge, G.E., & Kwon, M. (2003). Training improves reading speed in peripheral vision: Is it due To attention? [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada. INVITED TALKS Jan 2014 How does the human visual system adapt to visual deprivation hosted by The New England College of Optometry

Curriculum Vitae MiYoung Kwon 8 Dec 2013 Nov 2013 Oct 2013 Oct 2013 Sept 2012 June 2011 June 2010 Adaptability of the human visual system following visual deprivation hosted by Ruth Rosenholtz s lab at MIT Seeing the world under deprived viewing conditions: what and how hosted by Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama, Birmingham Seeing the world under deprived viewing conditions: what and how hosted by Pawan Sinha s lab at MIT What does an eye with amblyopia see? Assessment of Core Deficits in Amblyopia hosted by the New England Ophthalmological Society Visual span and reading speed hosted by Vision Rehabilitation/Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Rapid adaptability in oculomotor control in response to simulated central scotoma hosted by the Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Contrast: Then and Now hosted by the Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota (copresented with Gordon E. Legge) TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2008 (Fall) Psy 4036: Perceptual Issues in Visual Impairment Teaching Assistant/Lab Instructor 2008 (Spring) Psy 1001: Intro to Psychology Teaching Assistant 2007 (Fall) Psy 3051: Intro to Cognitive Psychology Teaching Assistant REFERENCES Gordon E. Legge, Ph.D. University of Minnesota Twin-Cities, Department of Psychology N-218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 625-0846, legge@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae MiYoung Kwon 9 Bosco S. Tjan, Ph.D. University of Southern California, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience Program 3620 McClintock Ave, SGM #501, Los Angeles, CA 90089 (213) 821-2953, btjan@usc.edu Peter Bex, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School, Department of Ophthalmology 20 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114 (617) 912-2528, peter.bex@schepens.harvard.edu Sheng He, Ph.D. University of Minnesota Twin-Cities, Department of Psychology N252 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 626-0752, sheng@umn.edu