Flip Phillips
Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFlip Phillips is a professor and vision scientist with 13 years of professional experience and a four-decade career spanning academia, industry (including Pixar), and startup founding. He researches vision, shape and space perception, haptics, audition, and medical imaging while applying scientific computing and computer graphics to animation and experimental tools. Based in Rochester, NY, he currently teaches at RIT and holds Professor Emeritus status at Skidmore College, reflecting long-term leadership in perception research and education. An active open-source contributor, he has improved psychophysics experimental control in the widely used PsychoPy project, demonstrating practical skills bridging lab methodology and software. He also brings an uncommon blend of creative practice—snare drumming and animation—into rigorous perceptual science, informing both his teaching and interdisciplinary collaborations.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Ph.D. at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (5)
controls10
python10
psych10
wxpython9
experiment9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
psychopy/psychopy
Aug 2013 - Apr 2014
For running psychology and neuroscience experiments
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 comment in 7 months
Contributions summary:Flip primarily focused on debugging and improving the manual calibration features of the psychopy library. This included fixing crashes in 'semi' calibration mode and correcting issues with photometer integration. They also addressed a bug related to multi-staircase types and updated the luminance level dialog code for improved functionality, indicating a focus on the psychophysics and experimental control aspects of the project.
neurosciencepythonexperiment-controlcognitive-scienceopenscience
flipphillips/FPTools
Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:24 releases, 53 commits, 46 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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