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Dr. Peli
is Senior Scientist and the Moakley Scholar in Aging Eye Research at The
Schepens Eye Research Institute, and Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.
He also serves on the faculties of the New England College of Optometry
(Adjunct Professor of Optometry and Visual Sciences),
Tufts University School of Medicine (Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology), and
University of York, UK
(Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Electronics). Since 1983 he has been
caring for visually impaired patients as the director of the Vision Rehabilitation Service at the New England Medical Center
Hospitals in Boston. Dr. Peli is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of the SID (Society
for Information Display), and a Fellow of the
SPIE (The International Society of Optical Engineering). He was presented the 2001
Glenn A. Fry Lecture Award by the American Academy of Optometry,
the 2004 Alfred W. Bressler Prize in Vision Science (shared with Dr.
R. Massof) by the Jewish Guild for the Blind, and the 2006
Pisart Vision Award by the Lighthouse
International. He was awarded a Honorary Degree
of Master in Medicine by Harvard Medical School in 2002 and a Honorary
Doctor of Science Degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) in 2006.
Dr. Peli's principal research interests are image processing in relation to
visual function and clinical psychophysics in low vision rehabilitation, image
understanding and evaluation of display-vision interaction. He also maintains
an interest in oculomotor control and binocular vision. Dr. Peli is a consultant
to many companies in the ophthalmic instrumentation area and to manufacturers
of head mounted displays (HMD). He serves as a consultant on many national committees,
advising the National Institutes of Health and
NASA AOS (Aviation Operations Systems) advisory committee.
Dr. Peli has published more than 120 scientific papers and has been awarded
8 US Patents.
He also edited a book entitled Visual Models
for Target Detection with special emphasis on military applications
and coauthored a book entitled Driving with
Confidence: A Practical Guide to Driving with Low Vision (coauthored with
Doron Peli).
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