[1] During his doctoral semester he studied with Brian Wandell Amos Tversky, and Ewart Thomas.
He was appointed an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in Psychology and in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1985.
Maloney has conducted studies in the physics and mathematics of color vision that resulted in two highly cited articles in the Journal of the Optical Society of America.
[2][3][a] Previously, his work in visual-cue combination led to a frequently cited review article in Vision Research.
[6][7][8][9] Recently, his studies on movement planning and decision making under risk are a contribution to the newly emerging field of neuroeconomics.