Arathy Kartha, PhD

Assistant Professor
Biological and Vision Sciences
https://www.mivilab.com
  • General
  • Credentials
  • Scholarship

Bio

Dr. Kartha completed her BS and MPhil Optometry from the Elite School of Optometry, Chennai, India. She worked as a low vision specialist at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India before leaving for Australia to do her PhD in Pediatric Vision Rehabilitation. Following her PhD, she moved to the United States. After a long hiatus, she returned to low vision research by doing a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Wilmer Eye Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Her current research focus is on developing a multi sensory rehabilitation for individuals with Ultra Low Vision for which she was awarded the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Grant from the National Eye Institute.

Education

  • PhD, Pediatric Vision Rehabilitation, Queensland University of Technology, 2010
  • Other, Vision Rehabilitation, Elite School of Optometry, 2005
  • BS, , Elite School of Optometry, Chennai, India, 2002

Awards/Honors

  • Kasuo Tsubota MD PhD Innovation Grant, 2023
  • MIT Outstanding Poster Award (CL), 2022
  • ARVO Travel Grant, 2020
  • International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, 2006

Professional Experience

  • Chair, Optica, 2023 - 2026

Research Interests

Low Vision, Vision Rehabilitation, Multisensory Integration, Visual Performance

Publications

  • Self-Reported Visual Ability Versus Task Performance in Individuals With Ultra-Low Vision, Translational Vision Science and Technology 12 (10): 14 14, 2023
  • Measuring visual information gathering in individuals with ultra low vision using virtual reality, Scientifc Reports 13 2023
  • Glow in the dark: Using a heat-sensitive camera for blind individuals with prosthetic vision, Vision Research 184 23-29 23-29, 2021
  • Prosthetic visual performance using a disparity-based distance-filtering system , Translational Vision Science & Technology 9 (27): 2020
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