MiYoung Kwon

MiYoung Kwon is an assistant professor of the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University. She received the PhD in cognitive/biological psychology and statistics at the University of Minnesota in 2010. After graduation, Dr. Kwon joined the computational and functional vision lab at the University of Southern California as a postdoctoral research associate followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School.

Prior to joining Northeastern University, Dr. Kwon served on the faculty of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the UAB Medical School. Her research focuses on visual perception in low vision, brain plasticity following visual impairments, and low vision rehabilitation. Her work is primarily concerned with understanding how eye disorders and abnormal visual experience affect the way visual information is processed in the visual pathways.

Dr. Kwon’s research has been funded by the National Eye Institute (RO1), Research to Prevent Blindness, and the Eye Sight Foundation of Alabama.