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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Weili Ding Associate Professor of Economics Weili Ding is an Associate Professor of Economics at NYU Shanghai. Her research focuses on the economics of education as well as rural development and urban transitions in China. In recent work, she has...
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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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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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Glenn Saxe Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Director, The Child Study Center I am the Arnold Simon Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as well as the Director of The Child Study Center at NYULMC...
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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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