Justin Gardner is associate professor of psychology and co-director of the Neurosciences Interdepartmental Graduate Program at Stanford University. His lab aims to link visual perceptual behavior to measurements of cortical function in humans by using computational linking models.
After graduating from Yale University with a B.S. in computer science, Gardner worked as a programmer in a computer game company. He received training as an awake-behaving-monkey physiologist in the lab of Stephen Lisberger at the University of California, San Francisco and earned a Ph..D in bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley/University of California, San Francisco joint bioengineering graduate program. He turned to human neuroscience in his postdoctoral work with Keiji Tanaka at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute and subsequently with David Heeger at New York University. Before moving to Stanford, he held an independent research position at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute.