Anqi Zhang

Biography

Anqi Zhang received his Ph.D. in Physics, and a Master's Degree in Statistics, both at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2025, he joined the Dr. Miguel Eckstein's VIU lab at UCSB as a postdoctoral researcher. Besides vision science research, Anqi enjoys board games, reading, hiking, and singing along worship music while driving (with dedicated attention to the road).

Research

With a diverse yet specialized training background in Physics, Statistics, and vision science, Anqi is committed to advancing scientific understanding of human visual search, and translating the discoveries to medical image perception, especially helping radiologists to detect abnormality more efficiently and accurately.

His dissertation elaborates behavior and modeling of human visual detection and search in natural backgrounds. He is applying Bayesian Decision Theory, Signal Detection Theory, behavioral psychophysics, and computational modeling to investigate search behaviors of human and models in 3D images and layers of 2D images (common in medical imaging). His long-term research goals encompass more complex cases of human visual search that involve navigation in and modification to the environment, and communication among searchers.