David A. Tovar

Joined

November 2024

Names

David A. Tovar (Preferred)

Emails

****@vanderbilt.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Psychology, Vanderbilt University (vanderbilt.edu)

2022 – 2025

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

2016 – 2021

Expertise

Computer Vision

Present

Physiology

Present

Cognition

Present

Deep Learning

Present

Neuroscience

2011 – Present

Publications

Beginning with You: Perceptual-Initialization Improves Vision-Language Representation and Alignment
YANG HU, Runchen Wang, Stephen Chong Zhao, Xuhui Zhan, Do Hun Kim, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Shifting Attention to You: Personalized Brain-Inspired AI Models
Stephen Chong Zhao, Yang Hu, Jason Lee, Andrew Bender, Trisha Mazumdar, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Identifying Behavioral Correlates to Visual Discomfort
David A. Tovar, James Wilmott, Xiuyun Wu, Daniel Martin, Michael J. Proulx, Dave Lindberg, Yang Zhao, Olivier Mercier, Phillip Guan
- ACM Trans. Graph. 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Emerging Object Representations in the Visual System Predict Reaction Times for Categorization
J. Brendan Ritchie, David A. Tovar, Thomas A. Carlson
- PLoS Comput. Biol. 2015
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors