Talks and Tutorials

Talks, slides, video tutorials and interviews, grouped by topic and listed newest first. ▶ Video opens a recording; Slides opens a PDF.

Featured  ·  Visual cortex & reading  ·  Diffusion MRI  ·  Image systems  ·  Data management  ·  Video tutorials  ·  Interviews  ·  No longer online

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Visual cortex, remapping, and reading

• 2026 · Maps, Clusters, and Remapping — Royal Society Meeting on Meso-scale Imaging, London, May 2026  Materials
• 2024 · Ophthalmology department colloquium — UC Irvine, March 2024  ▶ Video
• 2023 · Maps, Plasticity, Reading — Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Annual Conference, October 2023  ▶ Video
• 2022 · Human Visual Cortex: Circuitry for Vision and Reading — ARVO Proctor Medal Lecture, Denver, May 2022 (introduction by David Brainard)  ▶ Video · Slides
• 2019 · Diagnosing the reading circuitry of the brain — Mysteries of the Brain Symposium, Tübingen, September 2019  ▶ Video · Slides
• 2019 · Visual circuitry for vision and reading — GE Neuro Summit, San Diego  Slides
• 2019 · Surprising stories about the human brain — Stanford Sierra Camp  Slides
• 2019 · Reading diagnosis and the single participant — China Brain Science and Education, Qingdao  Slides

Earlier talks (2018 and before)

• 2018 · Japan Human Brain Mapping (pRF, models, reading) — Tokyo  Slides
• 2018 · Maps and models of the visual brain — Tsinghua University and Beijing Normal University  Slides
• 2018 · The human brain — Stanford Alumni, San Diego  Slides
• 2018 · The human brain — Stanford Alumni, Honolulu  Slides
• 2017 · Visual system plasticity and stability — OHBM neuroplasticity symposium, Vancouver  Slides
• 2017 · Visual cortex and seeing words: neural circuitry — Zhejiang University  Slides
• 2017 · Diagnosing the reading circuitry — Peking University (McGovern Institute)  Slides
• 2017 · Happy 60th Birthday to Dave Donoho  Slides
• 2016 · Miller Award Lecture — Cognitive Neuroscience Society  Slides
• 2016 · Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering — SCIEN  Slides
• 2012 · Plasticity in human visual cortex — ARVO Oberdorfer Award  Slides
• 2012 · Overview of human visual cortex and MRI — ICIP plenary  Slides
• A colloquium on vision, tracts, and reading — The Human Visual Pathways: Maps, Plasticity, and Reading (posted by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute)  ▶ Video
• Understanding blindness and the brain: Mike May — Stanford Homecoming talk  ▶ Video

Diffusion MRI and tractography

• 2015 · General MR tutorial, with a lot of diffusion — Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience  Slides
• 2014 · Diffusion MRI and LiFE — Maastricht Imaging Center  ▶ Video
• 2013 · Diffusion tutorials (Karla Miller first; my part starts at 1:15) — Simons Foundation Symposium, September 2013  ▶ Video · Slides
• 2013 · Diffusion and vision — Bay Area Vision Research Day, August 2013  Slides
• Rethinking tractography — ARL–Princeton  Slides
• Diffusion and tractography — Tahoe (Cognitive Neuroscience book)  Slides

Image systems engineering

• 2025 · Center for Visual Science colloquium — University of Rochester, January 2025  ▶ Video · Slides
• 2025 · IEEE Sensors Workshop — Vancouver  Slides
• 2024 · Image Systems Simulations — HKUST Mong Lecture, April 2024  Slides
• 2024 · ISETCam, ISET3d, ISETBio — EI HPC Conference  Slides
• 2024 · Cone fundamentals, Maxwell, collegiality — Stanford EE Faculty Lunch  Slides
• 2023 · Quantifying performance of automotive perception systems — Electronic Imaging (AVM)  Slides
• 2022 · Image systems simulation for autonomous driving — SAE World Congress  ▶ Video
• 2022 · Simulation technologies for image systems engineering and biology — Gordon Conference  Slides
• 2022 · ISETCam and ISET3d for automotive applications — Graphics Café, Stanford  Slides
• 2021 · VIPLab — Valencia  Slides
• 2020 · Modeling the initial steps of human vision (ISETBio and ISET3d, with David Brainard) — Optica (OSA) webinar, July 2020  Slides · Webinar page
• 2020 · ISETBio — Adaptive Optics meeting  Slides
• 2019 · ISETBio: Software for the foundations of vision science — Asia Pacific Conference on Vision  Slides
• 2019 · Simulation technologies for image systems engineering — Design Automation Conference luncheon, Las Vegas  Slides
• 2019 · Color appearance: light, brain and perception — SciApp meeting, Arizona State University  Slides

Earlier talks (2017 and before)

• 2017 · ISETBio and image systems simulation — Fall Vision Meeting  Slides
• 2017 · ISETBio and image systems simulation — Nankai University visit, San Jose  Slides
• 2016 · Image systems simulation: the need — Jilin  Slides
• Human image formation (physiological optics) — Black Forest tutorial, Freudenstadt  Slides
• How wavelength becomes color (foundations of color science) — Black Forest tutorial, Freudenstadt  Slides

Scientific data management

• 2021 · Origins and goals of Flywheel — INCF lecture  ▶ Video
• 2018 · Achieving reproducibility: perspectives and new tools for MRI centers — Society for Neuroscience (Flywheel)  Slides
• 2018 · SNI-CNI-Flywheel — Fengyun Workshop, Beijing  Slides
• 2018 · EE Faculty Lunch — Stanford, April 2018  Slides
• 2016 · IIBIS Seminar — Stanford, May 2016  Slides
• 2015 · How reproducible research and big data will help support kids with difficulty learning to read — Big Data in Medicine, Stanford  ▶ Video
• 2015 · Scientific data management for reproducible research — Data Day at Stanford  ▶ Video
• Flywheel implementation of data and computational management — video channel  ▶ Video
• NIMS to Flywheel to Google — Google Cloud case study  Article

Video tutorials

• ISETCam videos (including videos with Joyce Farrell) — ISETCam wiki  ▶ Video
• ISETBio videos (including videos from David Brainard) — ISETBio wiki  ▶ Video

Interviews

• Scientific Sense podcast with Gill Eapen  Podcast
• 2016 · Sizing up living brain tissue — Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Miller Prize interview  Article
• 2010 · Mike May, Ione Fine and me on adult cortical plasticity — KQED Quest, 5 minutes  Article
• 2007 · Watching the brain at work (Dougherty video) — KQED Quest, 8 minutes  ▶ Video

No longer online

These talks, courses and articles were online, but their original links no longer work.

• Psych 221: Applied vision and image systems engineering (full class lectures and 5–10 minute tutorials) — Stanford course recordings
• Psych 204A: Introduction to human neuroimaging, and a set of 5–10 minute MRI tutorials — Stanford course recordings
• 2019 · Simulation technologies for image systems engineering — SCIEN
• 2018 · General introduction to human neuroimaging with MRI — Samsung Electronics, San Jose
• 2018 · SUSTech write-up
• 2016 · Learning the image processing pipeline — SCIEN lecture
• 2016 · Plasticity and stability — Collège de France, June 2016
• 2015 · Learning the image processing pipeline — OSA Topical Meeting: Imaging Systems and Applications
• 2015 · Local, linear and learned (L3), with Qiyuan Tian and Haomiao Jiang — NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference
• 2014 · Maps, tracts, and reading — UCSD Founders Day Lecture
• 2012 · Brain scans predict a child’s reading ability (with Jason Yeatman) — Reuters video
• 2008 · The human visual pathways: development and adult plasticity — Optical Society Fall Vision Meeting