My research is predominantly concerned with developing neuromorphic active vision systems that will hopefully provide excellent performance in a variety of machine vision problems as well as contribute to our theoretical understanding of human vision and learning. I believe that to understand the brain it is necessary to study it in an embodied and holistic manner. I argue that to fully understand human vision we much take into account the movement of the eyes and their perceptual capabilities.

My advisor is Garrison Cottrell.

I grew up in a small town in rural Oklahoma, where I first began to explore artificial intelligence by creating "bots" to play text-based multi-player RPGs in high school soon after the first ISP opened in town. I graduated with a B.S. in computer science and philosophy from Oklahoma State University. Subsequently, I earned a M.S. in computer science from the University of Southern California (USC), with an emphasis in artificial intelligence and neuroscience. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science (and soon cognitive science) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

Mailing Address:
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
EBU3B, Room 4154
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0404
La Jolla, CA 92093-0404
USA

Email: ckanan AT ucsd DOT cs DOT ucsd DOT edu