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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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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Kenway Louie

Kenway Louie

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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Kaan Ozbay

Kaan Ozbay

Kaan Ozbay Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU-Poly and Center for Urban Science and Progress Kaan M.A. Özbay has joined Department of Civil and Urban engineering and Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at NYU on August 2013...

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Steven Lehrer

Steven Lehrer

Steven Lehrer Associate Professor of Economics Steven Lehrer is an Associate Professor of Economics at NYU Shanghai and a faculty research fellow in the Economics of Education program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His...

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Jay Van Bavel

Jay Van Bavel

Jay Van Bavel Associate Professor of Psychology  jay.vanbavel@nyu.edu Jay Van Bavel is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University and Director of the Social Perception and Evaluation Laboratory. Jay completed his PhD at the...

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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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Laurence T. Maloney

Laurence T. Maloney

Laurence T. Maloney Professor of Psychology and Neural Science In college, at Yale, I majored in mathematics with occasional courses in computer science and automata theory. After graduation, I spent six years as a systems programmer designing...

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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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Jess Benhabib

Jess Benhabib

Jess Benhabib Paulette Goddard Professor of Political Economy I obtained my Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1976. I have been at NYU since 1980, and I am currently the Paulette Goddard Professor of Political Economy in the Faculty of Arts and...

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Catherine Hartley

Catherine Hartley

Catherine Hartley Assistant Professor of Psychology  cate@nyu.edu Learning lays the foundation for motivated behavior, enabling us to anticipate and respond adaptively to salient events. Research in my lab focuses on characterizing the diverse...

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Charles R. Marmar

Charles R. Marmar

Charles R. Marmar Professor of Psychiatry; Director of PTSD Research Program; Chair of the Department of Psychiatry Dr. Marmar is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor, and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, New York University Langone Medical...

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