Wei Ji Ma Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology I started out as a theoretical physicist, before realizing that I wasn’t very good at that and that I found the brain more interesting. Like many physicists, I switched to...
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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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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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Ifat Levy Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine and Neurobiology ifat.levy@yale.edu My lab studies the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making in humans, individual differences in these mechanisms, and the possible contribution of...
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Claudio T. Silva Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of EngineeringHead of Disciplines, Center for Urban Science and Progress Claudio Silva is a Computer Scientist specializing in Big Data Analytics. From 2003 to 2011, he...
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Guillaume Frechette Professor of Economics My interests revolve around the testing of economic models, mostly having to do with Industrial Organization and Political Economy. This has led me to work on bargaining and infinitely repeated games. I...
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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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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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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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Ernst Fehr Professor of Economics and Director of UBS International Economics, University of Zurich Ernst Fehr is a global distinguished visiting professor here at NYU. Ernst visits NYU for 6 weeks out of the academic year. When not at NYU...
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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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