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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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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Roozbeh Kiani

Roozbeh Kiani

Roozbeh Kiani Assistant Professor of Neural Science When I was studying medicine in Iran I became interested in systems neuroscience, especially how the interaction of neural populations gives rise to perception, cognition, and goal directed...

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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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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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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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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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Andrew Caplin

Andrew Caplin

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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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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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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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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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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