Giovanna C. Del Sordo

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Vision Sciences & Memory Lab

New Mexico State University

August 2025: Our team, Dr. Michael Hout, Eben Daggett, and myself, has been awarded a grant by the NMSU Institute for Applied Practice in AI and Machine Learning. Our project is called “Human similarity data for the development of representationally aligned medical AI”.

August 2025: Our third OPAM workshop is now live! Presented by Dr. Jason Geller, this session focused on writing reproducible manuscripts in R using Quarto. The recording is available on our website, check it out!

July 2025: OPAM hosted its second workshop on running power analysis simulations in R on July 3, 2025, presented by Dr. Chris Jungerius. The full recording is now available on our website.

May 2025: A new article from our lab is out! This project was funded by NM-INBRE through a grant awarded to Dr. Michael Hout. The work was presented by Dr. Megan Papesh at the ACM Symposium on Eye-tracking Research and Applications in Tokyo and co-authored by myself, Dr. Hout, and our lab members Bryan White and Ashley Mathis.

May 2025: OPAM is now funded through an NSF grant! As part of this support, we’re launching a series of online workshops designed by and for early career researchers, aimed at building key skills for future careers.

Our first workshop will be led by Dr Rebecca Hirst (Open Science Tools) on running experiments in PsychoPy. Participation is free, and recordings will also be available, just sign up through our website. Don’t forget to join our mailing list to stay up to date on future workshops!

April 2025: Thrilled to share that Mayte Alonso Carrillo, an undergraduate Discovery Scholar in our lab, presented our collaborative work at the 2025 Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium (URCAS)! Mayte has been part of the lab since Fall 2024 and has been co-supervised by myself, Dr Michael Hout, and Dr Megan Papesh on this project. She won an Outstanding Poster Presentation award! Congratulations, Mayte! 🎉

March 2025: I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee for the Psychonomic Society Conference, taking place November 20–23, 2025, in Denver, CO.

March 2025: Excited to share that I’ve joined the OPAM family! I’ll be part of the team organizing OPAM 33, which will take place on November 20, 2025, in Denver, CO.