Wei Ji Ma

Wei Ji Ma

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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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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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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Xiao-Jing Wang

Xiao-Jing Wang

Xiao-Jing Wang ISDM Associate Director,Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor of Neural Science Xiao-Jing Wang is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at NYU Shanghai, and Professor of Neural Science at New York University...

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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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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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Elizabeth A. Phelps

Elizabeth A. Phelps

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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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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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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Guillaume Frechette

Guillaume Frechette

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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Donald Goff

Donald Goff

Donald Goff ISDM Associate Director, Marvin Stern Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine Dr. Goff is a translational clinical researcher who studies and treats schizophrenia. He pioneered the development of glutamatergic agents and...

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