Vlad is an incoming Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University. He is interested in understanding mechanisms underlying early developing cognitive and perceptual abilities. His work takes a multi-modal approach drawing on tools from psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. Before joining Temple as faculty, Vlad earned a PhD from Emory University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pennsylvania. Vlad was born in Kiev, Ukraine and was raised just outside Philadelphia, where he obtained a BA right here at Temple. 

Mobi completed his dogtoral degree at Camp Bow Wow in Pittsburgh where he (unsuccessfully) studied inhibitory control. He then went on to a postdog position at Carnegie Mellon University where his work centered on active motor prediction of small object trajectories (frisbees). He is currently on sabbatical conducting field research (hunting squirrels).