Faculty By Department Affiliations
The following list details our Core Faculty Members as well as our Associated and Affiliated Faculty, their research topics and their departmental affiliations at the University.
Chemistry
- Biophysics and structural biology, Clarence Schutt
Computer Science
- Probabilistic graphical models and approximate posterior inference, David Blei
- Theoretical and applied aspects of machine learning, Robert Schapire
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Programming and decision making in animals, James Gould
- Adaptive patterns of social behavior, Daniel Rubenstein
Electrical Engineering
- Video and image processing, and adaptive systems, Peter Ramadge
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Mathematical modeling, Philip Holmes
- Optimal control of disease processes, Robert Stengel
Molecular Biology
- Left-right patterning in the vertebrate embryo, Rebecca Burdine
- Neurovirology, Lynn Enquist
- RNA localization and translational regulation during development in Drosophila, Liz Gavis
- Biological, computational and electronic olfaction; learning and memory, Alan Gelperin
- Neural computation in the retina, Michael Berry
- Neuronal functions of immune molecules, Lisa Boulanger
- Quantitative approaches to systems neuroscience, Carlos Brody
- Computational neurobiology/biophysics, John Hopfield
- Neural codes underlying olfactory and auditory perception in Drosophila, Mala Murthy
- Molecular mechanisms of aging, Coleen Murphy
- Membrance receptors and signal transduction, Jeffrey Stock
- Measurement and analysis of neural circuit dynamics, David Tank
- Learning rules and design principles in neural circuits, Samuel Wang
Operations Research and Financial Engineering
- Stochastic models and image analysis, Rene Carmona
Physics
- Interface between Physics and Biology, William Bialek
- Biophysics theory and experiment, Michael Romalis
Psychology
- Neural and computational basis of cognitive control, decision making, working memory, Matthew Botvinick
- Dynamics of executive function, Tim Buschman
- Neural mechanisms of cognitive control, Jonathan Cohen
- Bridging psychometrics and neuroscience with novel approaches to the assessment of human brain structure, function, and performance, Andrew Conway
- Social neuroscience: prejudice, social emotions and dispositional attribution, Susan Fiske
- Primate neuroethology and multisensory integration, Asif Ghazanfar
- Neurogenesis and hippocampal function, Elizabeth Gould
- Sensorimotor integration, Michael Graziano
- Functions of the cerebral cortex in behavior, Charles Gross
- Developing new methods to assess both shared and idiosyncratic aspects of the cortical response time courses across individuals, Uri Hasson
- Brain monoamine neurotransmitters, Barry Jacobs
- Neural mechanisms of visual perception and attention, Sabine Kastner
- Human and animal reinforcement learning and decision making, Yael Niv
- Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory, Kenneth Norman
- How does the brain reason?, Daniel Osherson
- Cognitive neuroscience of social cognition and behavior, Alex Todorov
- Neural circuits underlying reward and motivation, Ilana Witten