Xavier Gabaix

Xavier Gabaix

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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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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John Rotrosen

John Rotrosen

John Rotrosen Director, Addiction Research Program Dr. John Rotrosen is Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. He attended NYU School of Medicine from 1968 to 1972 and completed a Psychiatry Research Residency at NYU...

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Nathaniel Daw

Nathaniel Daw

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

Agnieszka Tymula

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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Ariel Rubinstein

Ariel Rubinstein

Ariel Rubinstein Professor of Economics I am a professor of Economics at Tel Aviv and New York universities (and I feel strongly attached to the University of Tel Aviv Cafes). My main field of research is Economic Theory (in particular, Decision...

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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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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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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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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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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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David Cesarini

David Cesarini

David Cesarini Assistant Professor of Economics I am an assistant professor in the Economics Department’s Center for Experimental Social Science. I am an empirically oriented economist with interests in applied microeconomics, as well as...

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