About Wilma Bainbridge
Wilma Bainbridge is a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and she works with Aude Oliva at the Computer Vision & Graphics Group in MIT's Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Her research interests include object, space, and time perception, as well as robotics applications. Current projects include using fMRI to investigate object perception in terms of action, and psychophysics and computer modeling work on face memorability.
Before coming to MIT, Wilma began her neuroscience research with Marvin Chun's Visual Neuroscience Laboratory, as a cognitive science student at Yale University. She also pursued a related interest in robotics (specifically human-robot interaction) and spent 4 years at Brian Scassellati's Social Robotics Laboratory at Yale, followed by a year-long internship at Masayuki Inaba's JSK Humanoid Robotics Laboratory at the University of Tokyo.
Wilma also has a great love of travel. She lived in Japan for two years (one in Kyoto, one in Tokyo), and has made her way around to several countries since then, including South Korea, China, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Jamaica, France, England, and Germany. On a related note, she is also dedicated to language study and is currently studying Korean and Chinese.
난 한국으로 갈 때 정말 재미있어서 한국어를 공부하려고 생각했어요. 열심히 공부할 거에요!
我现在在大学学中文。我觉得有一点难，但是很有意思。
Note: The photograph used in this header was taken by Wilma spring 2009 during cherry blossom season in Kenrokuen, Kanazawa; heralded as one of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan.