Kenway Louie The vision scientist David Marr noted that information processing can be understood at three fundamental levels: at the level of functional goal (computational), at the level of representation (algorithmic), and at the level of...
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Andrew Caplin ISDM Director,Professor of Economics My Ph.D. at Yale was supervised by Professors William Nordhaus, Herbert Scarf, and James Tobin. The diverse intellectual make-up of the committee reflects my broad combination of interests, which...
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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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Li Li Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology Li Li is an Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, she was an Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Hong...
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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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Pamela Butler Associate Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine; Research Scientist, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research My main research focus is on psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia. People with schizophrenia...
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Elizabeth A. Phelps ISDM Associate Director,Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science My research examines the cognitive neuroscience of emotion, learning and memory. My primary focus has been to understand how human learning and...
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Nathaniel Daw Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute I study how people and animals learn from trial and error (and from rewards and punishments) to make decisions, combining computational, economic, neural, and behavioral perspectives. I...
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Agnieszka Tymula Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney agnieszka.tymula@sydney.edu.au My research goal is to improve scientific understanding of how individuals make decisions. In my work I pose questions that cross traditional boundaries...
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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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Xavier Gabaix Professor of Finance My research focuses on behavioral economics, finance and macroeconomics. These days I am working particularly on developing basic modeling tools for behavioral economics.I’m developing a sparse matrix, that...
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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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