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 in 2002 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 got my bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. The two biggest parts of my life during that time were Phi Alpha Kappa and the U of Michigan Solar Car Team. Phi Alpha Kappa is a Christian fraternity, and was my home for my last two years at U of M. The Solar Car Team is a group of students dedicated to constructing and racing a solar powered electric vehicle in the biennial races across the US and Australia. 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!