Dr. Vasha DuTell

I’m an Oregon native, currently working in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a METEOR Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT CSAIL, where I’m advised by Ruth Rosenholtz and Bill Freeman. I’m also Co-Founder/CEO at Yoku AI. I graduated in 2021 with my PhD from UC Berkeley, where I was advised by Bruno Olshausen and Marty Banks.

My research interests surround using machine learning to study the human visual system and its relationship to the dynamics of the natural world. I’m passionate about using these techniques to build a better world.

MIT Computer Science and AI Lab – Postdoctoral Scholar

Yoku AI – Co-Founder & CEO

Nvidia –  Research Intern

C. Light Technologies – Data Science Consultant

Stowers Institute for Medical Research – Bioinformatician

NASA Ames Research Center – Research Intern

Iowa State University –  Research Intern

Ph.D. Vision Science UC Berkeley 2021

M.S. Biology University of Oregon, 2014

B.S. Computer Science, Physics University of Oregon, 2012

Harrington, A., DuTell, V., Tewari, A., Hamilton, M., Stent, S., Rosenholtz, R., & Freeman, W. T. Exploring perceptual straightness in learned visual representations. In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations., 2023

Brown, R., DuTell, V., Walter, B., Rosenholtz, R., Shirley, P., McGuire, M., & Luebke, D. Efficient Dataflow Modeling of Peripheral Encoding in the Human Visual System Transactions on Perception, 2023

Dutell, V., Gibaldi, A., Focarelli, G., Olshausen, B., and Banks, M. Integrating High Fidelity Eye, Head and World Tracking in a Wearable Device. Behavioral Research Methods, 2022

Vasha’s Google Scholar Page

Email – vasha.dutell@nullgmail.com

GitHub – vdutell

LinkedIn – VashaDutell

Twitter – @VashaDutell

Amateur Radio – KN6AHO