About Eric

I am currently a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins in the Biomedical Engineering department. After going through the 1st year of med school I started working with Dr. Connor in the Mind/Brain Institute to study the primate vision system. Our lab investigates the properties of the primate visual system, and my specific research is in area V4 of the shape processing pathway. My long-term goal is to use this knowledge to help develop visual prosthetic devices. In the four years before coming to JHU I earned my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. While there I had the honor of being a member of the University of Michigan Solar Car Team - a group of students dedicated to constructing and racing a solar powered electric vehicle in the biennial races across the US and Australia.  On that team I gained valuable experience working with other engineers and using my electrical engineering knowledge to compete against top schools and professional engineering teams from around the world.  These days, when I'm not working at lab, I usually like to spend my time running, hiking, photographing, and skiing, among other things. I can be contacted via AIM (stratvio), MSN (aol.com, stratvio@), Yahoo Messenger (stratvio2002), or e-mail (carlsonhome.net, eric10@).

Happy Wanderings!