Steven Koonin

Steven Koonin

Steven Koonin ISDM Associate Director,Director, CUSP My postdoctoral training was in oculomotor physiology. Working with Prof. David Sparks researching the brainstem and mesencephalic nuclei that control eye rotations, I uncovered evidence that...

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Bijan Pesaran

Bijan Pesaran

Bijan Pesaran Associate Professor of Neural Science  bijan@nyu.edu Cerebral cortex contains a mosaic of brain areas that are connected to form distributed networks. In frontal and parietal cortex, these networks are specialized for movements such...

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Jian Li

Jian Li

Jian Li Assistant Professor of Psychology, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University My research interests evolve around the questions regarding human affective learning (reward and punishment) and decision-making. More...

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Shih-Wei Wu

Shih-Wei Wu

Shih-Wei Wu Associate Professor, National Yang-Ming University   As a graduate student at NYU, I worked with Larry Maloney on modeling how humans plan movements under risk and uncertainty. Intrigued by many results that reported near-optimal...

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Yael Niv

Yael Niv

Yael Niv Associate Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute Research in the Niv lab focuses on the neural and computational processes underlying reinforcement learning and decision-making — the ongoing day-to-day processes by which we learn...

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Daphna Shohamy

Daphna Shohamy

Daphna Shohamy Associate Professor of Psychology, Columbia University Daphna Shohamy is an associate professor in the department of Psychology at Columbia University and a member of Columbia University’s Kavli Center for Brain Science. Work in...

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Vicki Morwitz

Vicki Morwitz

Vicki Morwitz ISDM Associate DirectorProfessor of Business Leadership I am a faculty member in the Marketing Department of the Stern School of Business where I hold the Harvey Golub Professor of Business Leadership. In 2014 I was named a Fellow...

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Andrew Schotter

Andrew Schotter

Andrew Schotter Professor of Economics   Andrew Schotter is a Professor of Economics at New York University. He is also the Director of the Center for Experimental Social Science (C.E.S.S.). His main area of research is in economic theory, game...

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Thomas LoFaro

Thomas LoFaro

Thomas LoFaro Clifford M. Swanson Professor of Mathematics, Gustavus Adolphus College   Tom is the Clifford M. Swanson Professor of Mathematics at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. He became interested in the application of...

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Zheng Zhang

Zheng Zhang

Zheng Zhang Professor of Computer Science Zheng Zhang is professor of computer science at NYU Shanghai. He also holds an affiliated appointment with the Department of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and with the...

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Jeffrey Erlich

Jeffrey Erlich

Jeffrey Erlich Assistant Professor of Neuroscience  jerlich@nyu.edu How is tempestuous neural activity, driven by internal dynamics and external sensory input, resolved into coherent behavior? Animals (especially human animals) have many...

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David Heeger

David Heeger

David Heeger Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Vision, fMRI  david.heeger@nyu.edu  Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow ProfessorProfessor of Psychology and Neural Science I received my Ph.D. in computer science from...

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