About Me

Welcome! My name is Mohammad Ahsan Khodami where you also know me as Eithan. You can read about the name roots 🌐 here (click here to see why I have changed my name and have chosen Eithan), which also helps you separate me from Ethan (as famous as 🌐 Ethan Hunt).

I am a PhD Fellow Research at the Department of General Psychology at the University of Padua, Italy, working with Prof. Luca Battaglini Prof. Luca Battaglini, where I have secured a prestigious PhD funding from Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (Horizon 2020) from November 2022 till November 2025.

Coming from an Engineering background, I have a passion about Vision, Visual processing speed, visual cognition, attention, emotion and besides I do some research on 🌐 methodology and 🌐 computational framework.

After finishing my bachelor I moved to medical field to follow passionate of medical specifically medical imaging, later as a Research fellow have joined Ural Federal University in Russian under Russian Open Door scholarship and become a prize winner among over 1000 international applicants in 3 steps competition. Where led me to do a master by research + research fellow in cognitive neuroscience and also have worked in hospital mostly working with kids with ischemic stroke where I did a thesis on neuroimaging and cognitive study on patients under age of 18 and finished the course and entitled to master of cognitive neuroscience with distinct GPA of 4.7 out of 5 (among top 5%) of program and where I also learned Russian and met my wife.

During the period of 2021 to august 2022 I worked as RA in the LinguaMed, Russian Academy of Science where I had multiple responsibilities including teaching, research.

In the 2022 I become a PhD research fellow funded project under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Uniphd program funded by EU horizon 2020 and MSCA program where I have worked with professor Battaglini and Percup laboratory.

Starting from May 2024 I have started working with Professor Jeremy Wolfe 🌐 Professor Jeremy Wolfe where I have started working on few frameworks including role of emotion in visual search, computational understanding of the visual attention and visual search.

Since April 2025 I have started my visiting scholar period where I am currently working with Prof. Dr. Melissa Lê-Hoa Võ 🌐 Prof. Dr. Melissa Lê-Hoa Võ where I am immersing myself with application of VR in vision search, scene grammar and natural scene viewing meanwhile working few computational, conceptual framework.

I have published few works which can be found in 🌐publication page, few 🌐 python packages, few 🌐 Java e.g. jspsych works.