Team

Principal investigator

Nilsu Atilgan, PhD

Nilsu is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Bilkent University. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bilkent University and completed her PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the University of Minnesota. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University.
Her research focuses on reading and visual information processing, with experience spanning her doctoral work and her internship at Meta Reality Labs. Her projects have ranged from low level visual pepetion and attentional mechanisms to optimizing reading parameters for individuals with low vision to improving text legibility in AR/VR systems.
Before joining Bilkent, Nilsu served as the Lead Scientist at The Readability Consortium, a research center based at the University of Florida, where she continues to contribute as a scientific consultant.