Chen Yu is the Charles and Sarah Seay Regents Professor of the Department of Psychology, Central of Perceptual Systems, and Institute of Neural Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the Association of Psychological Science. He received the Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award from the American Psychological Foundation, the David Marr Prize from the Cognitive Science Society, and the ICIS Early Distinguished Contribution Award. He has published over 200 articles with several best paper awards from IEEE ICDL, Cognitive Science, and CVPR.