Connectionists: Doctoral studies in Vision at NYU

[Eero Simoncelli]

New York University is home to a thriving interdisciplinary community  
of researchers in the visual sciences, spanning multiple  
departments.   A listing of faculty, sorted by their primary  
departmental affiliation, is given below.   Doctoral programs are   
flexible, allowing students to pursue research across departmental  
boundaries.  Nevertheless, admissions are handled separately by each  
department, and students interested in pursuing graduate studies  
should submit an application to the program that best fits their goals  
and interests.  Application deadlines vary per department, as  
indicated below.

** Center for Neural Science (CNS) (Deadline: 12 December)
[http://www.cns.nyu.edu/doctoral/]
[Neuroscience throughout NYU:  http://neuroscience.nyu.edu]

* Michael Hawken (also in Psychology) - Neuronal mechanisms of visual  
perception.
* Lynne Kiorpes (also in Psychology) - Development of visual function.
* Tony Movshon (also in Psychology) - Vision and visual development.
* Bijan Pesaran - Neuronal dynamics, visuo-motor control, and decision  
making.
* John Rinzel (also in Mathematics) - Biophysical mechanisms and  
theory of neural computation.
* Nava Rubin (also in Psychology) - Visual perception and the neural  
basis of vision.
* Robert Shapley (also in Psychology and Biology) - Visual physiology  
and perception.
* Eero Simoncelli (also in Mathematics and Psychology) - Computational  
vision.

** Psychology, Cognition & Perception program (Deadline: 12 December)
[http://www.psych.nyu.edu/programs/cp/]

* Marisa Carrasco (also in CNS) - Visual perception and attention.
* David Heeger (also in CNS) - fMRI, computational neuroscience,  
vision, attention.
* Michael Landy (also in CNS) - Computational approaches to vision.
* Laurence Maloney (also in CNS) - Mathematical approaches to  
psychology and neuroscience.
* Denis Pelli (also in CNS) - Object recognition.

** Computer Science (Deadline: 4 January)
[http://www.cs.nyu.edu/web/Research/Areas/graphicsvisionui.html]

* Chris Bregler - human motion modeling, computer vision, machine  
learning.
* Rob Fergus - computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics.
* Davi Geiger (also in CNS) - Computational vision and learning.
* Yann LeCun - machine learning, hierarchical visual processing,  
robotics.
* Sam Roweis - machine learning, signal and image processing,   
analysis of large datasets.

** Mathematics (Recommended Deadline: 18 December )
[http://math.nyu.edu/degree/phd/]

* David Cai - Nonlinear stochastic behavior in physical and biological  
systems.
* David McLaughlin (also CNS) - Nonlinear wave equations,  
computational visual neuroscience.
* Aaditya Rangan -  computational neurobiology, numerical analysis.
* Michael Shelley (also CNS) - Modeling and large-scale computation,  
computational visual neuroscience.

** Biology (Deadline: 12 December)
[http://biology.as.nyu.edu/page/graduate.program]

* Claude Desplan (also CNS) - Molecular/genetic basis for development,  
particularly color vision circuitry.
* Daniel Tranchina (also Mathematics and CNS) - Information processing  
in the retina.

** Philosophy (Deadline: 4 January)
[http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/page/graduate]

* Ned Block (also psychology and CNS) - Foundations of consciousness.