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Stefano Fusi wants to design technology inspired by the human brain. As a step toward this goal, he is using math to better understand how the brain itself computes information, especially as related to problem solving, reasoning and decision-making. Because these brain-like machines would consume less electricity than today’s computers and be better at certain activities (such as recognizing images or driving cars), Dr. Fusi’s work could lead to technological advances that have thus far remained beyond our reach.
Ning Qian is exploring how the brain makes sense of the world we see and trying to explain why people with autism often find it difficult to look at faces.
I am a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, and also the Co-director of the Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind. My group develops statistical methodology for understanding how neurons encode information, how we might infer the connectivity of large populations of neurons, and how to decode information from the brain.
Larry Abbott is building computer models to help us understand how large groups of neurons work together to perceive and respond to the world around us.
Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology and Cellular Biophysics; Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute
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Click Here for Prof. Miller's Full Profile, Publications, & WebsiteJohn Morrison would like to understand brains and neural networks at an abstract level. In particular, he’d like to identify general principles for attributing representations and inferences to them, especially when those representations and inferences involve probabilities.
Statistician John Cunningham examines how the complex communication between motor cortex neurons gives rise to the elegant simplicity of our movements.
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience and a member of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience and the Zuckerman Insitute. More information can be found on my website.