Bosco Tjan was a professor of Phsycology at University of Southern California. ^[1] He was married to Carissa Tjan and had a son.

Bosco Tjan is a professor of psychology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and a training faculty in the USC Neuroscience Graduate Program.

Bosco is the founder and co-director of the USC Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center.

His research focuses on the behavioral, neural and computational aspects of human peripheral vision and oculomotor control.

His work addresses basic and translational questions pertaining to vision loss, restoration, and rehabilitation.

One area of Bosco's research is age-related macular degeneration and other macular diseases. These diseases often lead to irreversible loss of the central visual field. In these cases of central field loss, patients must rely on peripheral vision to recognize objects, identify faces, and read. However, performance on these form-vision tasks is worse than what can be expected by the loss of optical quality and image resolution in the peripheral visual fields. The causes of this excess impairment are not well understood, nor do researchers know whether changes can be induced in the adult peripheral visual system to alleviate these impairments over the long term.

Research in Dr. Tjan’s laboratory aims at advancing the basic understanding of peripheral form vision, using a broad range of techniques that include psychophysics, fMRI, EEG, eye tracking, computational modeling, and patient-based methodologies. Findings by Dr. Tjan and his group attribute the impaired peripheral form vision to problems associated with image encoding in the early stages of visual processing that are related to the normal patterns of eye movements. In the context of central vision loss, these results identify specific targets for the developments of effective rehabilitation regimens, image enhancement algorithms and advanced adaptive technologies.

On December 2, 2016, Tjan was stabbed to death by an unidentified student in the Seeley G. Mudd building at around 4:30p.m.