Mark Wallace

Mark Wallace

Professor, Department of Psychology
Professor, Hearing & Speech Sciences, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Generative AI, Immersive environments, Virtual reality, Brain-inspired AI

Mark T. Wallace is the holder of the Louise B. McGavock Endowed Chair in Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University. He is Professor of Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, Hearing & Speech Sciences, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry, as well as a member of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Vanderbilt Vision Research Center. Dr. Wallace has received a number of awards for both his research and his teaching, including the Faculty Excellence Award of Wake Forest University, the Outstanding Young Investigator in the Basic Sciences and was named as the Frijda Chair in Cognitive Science at the University of Amsterdam in 2015. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Dr. Wallace has an established record of research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and a number of private foundations, and is the author of more than 500 research presentations and publications. His work has employed a multidisciplinary approach to examining how the brain combines information from the different senses. The focus of his LIVE-related work is a large Meta funded international consortium focused on examining sensory development in children in naturalistic environments.