Eero Simoncelli

Eero Simoncelli is a Silver Professor of Neural Science, Mathematics, Data Science, and Psychology at New York University, and the Inaugural Scientific Director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience at the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation. Previously, he was on the faculty of the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, part of the Sloan Center for Theoretical Visual Neuroscience at NYU, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He received a BA in physics from Harvard University, studied mathematics at Cambridge University on a Knox Fellowship, and received his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His group studies the representation and analysis of visual images, in machine and biological vision systems. This includes empirical study of the structural and statistical properties of visual images, construction of theories and algorithms for representing and processing for those structures, and physiological or perceptual investigations designed to test or validate predictions of these theories.

Simoncelli is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of the AAAS, and an associate member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His awards and honors include the Edgar D. Tillyer Award, Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, the Golden Brain Award, an NSF CAREER award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, an Emmy Award for work on perceptual quality metrics, Outstanding Faculty awards from the NYU GSAS Graduate Student Council, and IEEE Best Journal Article awards.