Michael Bess Chancellor’s Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Michael Bess is Chancellor’s Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century Europe, with a particular interest in the interactions between social and cultural processes and technological change. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989.… read more »
Alberto Bisin Professor of Economics, New York University Alberto Bisin is Professor of Economics at New York University. He is an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also a fellow of the NBER, the Center for Experimental Social Sciences at NYU, IGIER at Bocconi University, CIREQ at the University of Montreal, IZA at the University of Bonn.… read more »
Ned Block Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, New York University Ned Block (Ph.D., Harvard), Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in philosophy of mind and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science, and is currently writing a book on attention.… read more »
Joyce Chaplin James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University Joyce E. Chaplin (BA, Northwestern; MA and PhD, Johns Hopkins) is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s program in American Studies. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom during the 1985-86 academic year, when she was also a visiting student at St.… read more »
James Dahlman Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech James Dahlman is a chemical / bioengineer who works at the interface of nanotechnology, genomics, and gene editing. He is studying gene editing with Feng Zhang at the Broad Institute. He received his PhD from MIT and Harvard Medical School in 2014, where he studied RNA delivery and gene therapies with Robert Langer and Daniel Anderson.… read more »
Shimon Edelman Professor of Psychology, Cornell University Shimon Edelman BSEE MSc PhD holds degrees in electrical engineering and in computer science and is interested in all aspects of mind, brain, and behavior. He has taught in Israel, England, and South Korea and is presently Professor of Psychology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where he works on behavioral, neural, evolutionary, and computational aspects of vision, language, consciousness, and happiness.… read more »
Andrew Gerber Medical Director/CEO, the Austen Riggs Center Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center in New York City Andrew J. Gerber is the Medical Director/CEO of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Gerber completed his PhD in Psychology at the Anna Freud Centre and University College London where he studied with Peter Fonagy and Joseph Sandler, investigating the process and outcome of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in young adults.… read more »
Nouchine Hadjikhani Associate Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School Nouchine Hadjikhani, MD, PhD, does brain research at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in Boston, where she directs the Neurolimbic research laboratory. She is also invited Professor at the Gillberg Neuropsychiatric Center in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her initial focus of research was the visual system, which over time developed into several topics, including migraine, emotion processing and autism.… read more »
David Hanson Founder and CEO, Hanson Robotics Lab Dr. David Hanson has built a worldwide reputation for creating the world’s most humanlike, empathetic robots, endowed with remarkable expressiveness, aesthetics and interactivity. He has produced many renowned, one-of-a-kind robot characters that have received massive media and public acclaim. Dr. Hanson publishes regularly in materials science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and robotics journals, including SPIE, IEEE, the International Journal of Cognitive Science, IROS, AAAI and AI magazine.… read more »
Jeffrey Kephart Distinguished RSM, Symbiotic Cognitive Systems IEEE Fellow Member, IBM Academy of Technology Jeffrey O. Kephart is a distinguished research scientist at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY. Known for his work on computer virus epidemiology and immune systems, electronic commerce agents, self-managing computing systems, and data center energy management, he presently leads research in the area of symbiotic cognitive systems and serves as co-strategist for embodied cognition.… read more »
Kathleen Kete Professor of European History, Trinity College Kathleen Kete is the Borden W. Painter, Jr., ’58/H’95 Professor of European History and Secretary of the Faculty at Trinity College, CT. She received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 1989, with a year en passant at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris.… read more »
Robert Kurzban Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Robert Kurzban is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Psychology Department. He received his PhD at the University of California Santa Barbara at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology in 1998, and received postdoctoral training at Caltech in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, UCLA Anthropology, and the University of Arizona’s Economic Science Laboratory with Vernon Smith.… read more »
Sara Lazar Assistant Professor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School Sara W. Lazar, Ph.D., is an Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals.… read more »
Joseph LeDoux University Professor & Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, Center for Neural Science and the Department of Psychology, New York University Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at NYU in the Center for Neural Science. He also directs the Emotional Brain at NYU and is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical School.… read more »
Francis Lee Mortimer D. Sackler Professor & Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College View Papers / Presentations » Francis Lee is the Mortimer D. Sackler Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, and attending psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He received his MD and PhD from the University of Michigan, and psychiatry training at Payne Whitney Clinic and completed postdoctoral training, at New York University and the University of California, San Francisco.… read more »
Anne-Marie Levine Poet and Visual Artist Anne-Marie Levine lives in New York City. A poet and visual artist who began writing while touring as a concert pianist, she’s the author of three books of poetry: Euphorbia, Bus Ride to a Blue Movie, and Oral History; and a forthcoming artists book called Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter.… read more »
Peter Malinowski Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liverpool John Moores University Peter Malinowski, PhD, is the founding director of the Meditation and Mindfulness Research Group at the Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Liverpool John Moores University and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. In his work he builds on his expertise in Cognitive Neuroscience and on his extensive experience in practicing and teaching meditation within the Karma Kagyu / Diamond Way tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.… read more »
Eric R. Marcus Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Dr. Eric R. Marcus is Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where he is a training and supervising analyst. He is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was formerly president of the New York County district branch of the American Psychiatric Association of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine.… read more »
Karen Maschke Researcher Scholar, The Hastings Center Karen J. Maschke is a Research Scholar at the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute in Garrison, New York. She has a PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University, and was a Bioethics Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic, an academic medical center in Cleveland, Ohio.… read more »
Darrin McMahon Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College, and formerly the Ben Weider Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University, where he taught from 2004-2014. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, where he received his PhD in 1998, McMahon is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), which has been translated into twelve languages, and was awarded Best Books of the Year honors for 2006 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Library Journal, and Slate Magazine; and Divine Fury: A History of Genius, published with Basic Books.… read more »
Craig Newschaffer Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University School of Public Health Craig Newschaffer is founding director of the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University, a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Associate Dean for Research at the Drexel University School of Public Health, and Vice President of the International Society for Autism Research.… read more »
Koshin Paley Ellison Co-Founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care Rev. Dr. Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, cofounded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, the first Zen-based organization to offer fully accredited ACPE clinical chaplaincy training in America, which delivers contemplative approaches to care through education, direct service, and meditation practice.… read more »
Benjamin Radcliff Professor of Political Science, the University of Notre Dame Benjamin Radcliff is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His current research focuses on the means by which human happiness is politically produced and distributed. His scholarly articles on the subject have appeared in many journals, including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Social Forces.… read more »
Francesca Rossi IBM Fellow & IBM AI Ethics Global Leader Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader. She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA, where she leads AI research projects. She co-chairs the IBM AI Ethics board and she participates in many global multi-stakeholder initiatives on AI ethics, such as the Partnership on AI, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations ITU AI for Good Summit, and the Global Partnership on AI.… read more »
Susan Seymour Jean M. Pitzer Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Pitzer College Susan C. Seymour is Jean M. Pitzer Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Pitzer College where she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty as well as Coordinator of Women’s Studies for the Claremont Colleges. Her research has focused on changing family and gender systems in India, specifically a longitudinal study in Bhubaneswar, India.… read more »
Morgan Stebbins Supervising Analyst, Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York Morgan Stebbins was a supervising analyst, faculty member and Director of Training at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York, where he also maintains a private practice. He teaches Religious Studies and Hermeneutics at the New York Theological Seminary in the Pastoral Care and Counseling program.… read more »
Wendy Suzuki Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, New York University Wendy Suzuki, Ph.D. is a Professor of Neural Science and psychology at New York University. She received her undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from U.C. San Diego. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health before starting her faculty position in the Center for Neural Science at New York University in 1998.… read more »
Yi-Yuan Tang Professor of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University View Papers / Presentations » Dr. Yi-Yuan Tang is a Professor of Psychological Sciences, Presidential Endowed Chair in Neuroscience at Texas Tech University and founding Director of Texas Tech Neuroimaging Institute. He is also Professor of Internal Medicine at TTU Health Science Center, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon.… read more »
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele Mortmer D. Sackler, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry Columbia University Dr. Veenstra-VanderWeele is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who uses molecular and translational neuroscience research tools in the pursuit of new treatments for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related genetic syndromes. As a predoctoral fellow, medical student, and resident, he trained in human molecular genetics in the laboratory at the University of Chicago.… read more »
Christine Vitrano Associate Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College, CUNY Christine Vitrano is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the author of The Nature and Value of Happiness. She is coauthor, with Steven M. Cahn, of Happiness and Goodness: Philosophical Reflections on Living Well and they also coedited Happiness: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy.… read more »
Martha Welch Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center Director of the Nurture Science Program in Pediatrics Director of the BrainGut Initiative in Developmental Neuroscience Dr. Welch is Director of the Nurture Science Program in Pediatrics and Director of the BrainGut Initiative in Developmental Neuroscience. She is appointed Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology & Cell Biology at Columbia University Medical Center.… read more »
Hans-Guido Wendel Principal Investigator at the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Dr. Hans-Guido Wendel, M.D. is a Principal Investigator at the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He works to identify new cancer therapies based on the genetic origins of the disease. He come from Germany and trained in medicine in Aachen and Edinburgh and is currently an Associate Member of the Sloan-Kettering Institute.… read more »