Andrew Schofield - Professor at Aston University

Andrew Schofield

Professor at Aston University

England, United Kingdom

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Andrew Schofield is a Professor of Vision Science with over two decades in higher education, blending experimental research on human texture and shading perception with computational modelling and practical applications to machine vision. He designs and codes complex visual stimuli—contributing backend work to the widely used PsychoPy library including new EnvelopeGrating and NoiseStim classes—and applies that technical fluency to run rigorous experiments and build reproducible tools. A former statistics instructor turned specialist in human visual perception and ageing vision, he has held leadership roles such as Deputy Director of Education and now runs the EPSRC Network for Visual Image Interpretation in Humans and Machines. Colleagues and students praise his clear lecturing and cross-disciplinary impact, bridging psychology, engineering and open-source software.

10 years of coding experience

2 years of employment as a software developer

PhD, Vision Science, PhD, Vision Science at Keele University

BEng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BEng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Brunel University of London

Github Skills (7)

controls10

visual10

shader10

python10

experimental-design10

psychopy10

numpy10

Programming languages (1)

Python

Github contributions (4)

psychopy/psychopy

Jun 2015 - Nov 2022

For running psychology and neuroscience experiments

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & System Architect

Contributions:80 commits, 39 PRs, 22 comments in 7 years 6 months

Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the visual module of the psychopy library, implementing a new `EnvelopeGrating` stimulus class. This stimulus allows for the creation of complex, second-order visual stimuli with independently controllable carrier and envelope characteristics. The user also addressed bugs in the `dots.py` module related to dot display, refresh, and boundary handling. Furthermore, the user introduced a new `NoiseStim` class and related Builder components, showcasing expertise in visual stimulus generation.

neurosciencepythonexperiment-controlcognitive-scienceopenscience

schofiaj/psychopy-visionscience

Jun 2024 - Jun 2024

Plugin package for PsychoPy which adds visual stimuli useful for vision scientists.

Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day

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