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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Michael S. Landy

Michael S. Landy

Michael S. Landy Professor of Psychology and Neural Science  landy@nyu.edu I have an enduring interest in the use of computational techniques to study human vision. My doctoral dissertation concerned the computer simulation of a neural network...

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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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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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Claudio T. Silva

Claudio T. Silva

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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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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Paul Glimcher

Paul Glimcher

Paul Glimcher ISDM Director,Julius Silver Professor of Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology My postdoctoral training was in oculomotor physiology. Working with Prof. David Sparks researching the brainstem and mesencephalic nuclei that...

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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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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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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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Bijan Pesaran

Bijan Pesaran

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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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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