2026. Mar 12th. The XYZ Sensory Lab hosted a successful Enhance Visual Accessibility workshop! Thanks for our collaborators and friends who flew to Baltimore to join this workshop.
2026. Jan 29th. Welcome Wilmer Residents to tour our XYZ Sensory Lab!
2025. November 22nd. XYZ lab presented at the 2025 Lions Rally! Thanks André, Prachi, Qingying, Jerry, and Emily for their support in demoing our research!
2025. November 1st. Yingzi, Prachi, and Jerry participated in the Walk and Run fund raising event hosted by the Helen Keller National Center at New York.
2025. October. The XYZ Sensory Lab and the Dana Center co-hosted Dr. Lisa Keay for a talk on Orientation & Mobility training and fall prevention.
2025. September. Yingzi, Qingying, Prachi, and Anas presented their work at the International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation.
2025. July. Congrats to XYZ Sensory Lab and Nemargut Lab on receiving an Insight Development Grant!
2025.06.09-0.6.13. Yingzi, Prachi, and André had a productive trip visiting the U of Montreal! We did two presentations and tested one participant! Thanks Joe for hosting us!
2025.05.19. Welcome Jerry (Rui) Jin to join our lab as the newest postdoc fellow!
Congratulations to André DeGrenier for starting a full time research assistant position in our lab!
Welcome Claire (Conghui) Chen to our lab as a summer medical student!
2025.05.08. Philip Won the Best Poster Award! Way to go, Philip!!! We are sooooo proud of you!!!
2025.05. Our lab had a blast at the ARVO conference! Check out our presentations here!
2025.03.02. Anas, Qingying, and Bill are awarded the ARVO travel grant!! Congrats!!
2025.02.28. We successfully completed our first field trip testing participants with Dual Sensory Loss at the Helen Keller National Center!
2025.02.06. Congratulations to Prachi, Qingying, Anas, Nitin, Bill, Andre, and Philip for having their research abstracts accepted to ARVO2025!
2025.01.23. Yingzi and Joe were invited for a podcast talking about research to advancing Orientation & Mobility practice for individual with low vision or blindnes.
2024.10.03. Yingzi is named the inaugural recipient of the Barbara E. Simerl Rising Professorship! Thanks so much to the Simerl family for their support for low vision research!
2024.09.28. Yingzi, Joe, Prachi, and Philip visited Helen Keller National Center at New York. Every excited to start out collaboration on the Dual Sensory Impairment research!
2024.09.01. Congratulations to our lab for receiving a R01 grant from NIH/NEI!
2024.08.28. Congratulations to Qingying on a great presentation at the Optica summer data blast!
2024.08.26. Welcome Nitin, Anas, and Mahika to join our lab! They will be working on the recruitment, screening, surveying, and performance-based studies for patients with low vision and/or hearing impairment!
2024.08.23. Qingying and Yingzi presented our work on vision accessibility at the Meta Reality lab. We did well 🙂
2024.08.21. Yingzi and Gislin’s labs hosted the visitors from China Eye Valley. Very excited to hear about the development on low vision research and clinical services in China!
2024.07.18. We had great time hosting our collaborator and friend Dr. Joe Nemargut! It was so much fun learning about Orientation & Mobility training and human guide skills! We look like Minions in those simulation goggles!
2024.07.12. We had a fun day making speech materials for our spatial localization study. Thanks so much to Andre for giving us access to the Peabody studio and help with the professional recording! We had quite some bloopers.
2024.06.24. Welcome our high school summer interns: Alyssa, Shanae, and Ishaan. It is so great to have you!
2024.05.08. Prachi, Qingying, and Philip’s first ARVO! Qingying was too immersed in the conference so was not in this photo :).
2024.02.15. Welcome Prachi, our postdoc fellow, to our lab! Prachi will be leading the Dual Sensory Impairment project. Our lab is growing!
2023.12.03. Congratulations to Yingzi and Joe for receiving the RPB international collaborators’ award! We will use this support to develop standardized Orientation & Mobility assessment tool for adults with vision loss.
2023.11.28. Congratulations to Qingying for officially enroll in the JHU CS PHD program! Looking forward to the next several years together!
