Dr. Yelda Semizer
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Dr. Semizer is the director of the lab and an Assistant Professor of Psychology (formerly Cyberpsychology) at NJIT. Prior to joining NJIT, Dr. Semizer was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with Dr. Ruth Rosenholtz. Dr. Semizer received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in 2019, under the supervision of Dr. Melchi Michel. Dr. Semizer also holds M.S. degrees in Statistics (2016) and in Cognitive Psychology (2015) from Rutgers, as well as an M.A. in Psychological Sciences (2013) from Bogazici University.
Abdul-Rehman Asif
Abdul-Rehman is an undergraduate pursuing a biology major and applied math/psychology minors at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is part of the Honors College. He is now contributing to projects assessing differences in peripheral visual abilities between video gamers and non-gamers to reveal the potential plasticity and trainability of peripheral vision skills.
Gala Krsmanović
Gala is an undergraduate student majoring in Cyberpsychology at NJIT, coming from Serbia. Her work in the lab focuses on studying perceptual differences between professional athletes and novices as a result of brain plasticity. Besides working in the lab, she currently works as a Teaching and Research Assistant at NJIT. She has participated in various research projects, focusing on cognition and brain stimulation. She hopes to finish graduate studies in Neuroscience and have a career in academia and research. She is also an active member of the NJIT Division I Fencing Team and Serbian National Team.
Haripriya Kemisetti
Haripriya is a data science major at NJIT. She is currently working on a project on inattentional blindness. She is excited to be actively involved in this lab and work on more projects in the future! Besides her research, she loves to read, do origami, and do crafts.
Jane Kalla
Jane Kalla is a Computer Science major at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on ensemble perception and emotion recognition in video conferencing environments, specifically examining how visual complexity influences people's ability to perceive group emotions. Through this work, she investigates how factors such as background clutter, virtual backgrounds, and facial arrangement impact the accuracy of emotion recognition in virtual settings. Her research combines principles from cyberpsychology, cognition, and human-computer interaction to better understand how people interpret social information in increasingly virtual environments.
