Ken Mogi is a Senior Researcher at Sony Computer Science Labs. Ken Mogi graduated from University of Tokyo, with a degree in Physics and Law. Then he studied biophysics at the graduate school of University of Tokyo, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1992. After doing research in Riken and University of Cambridge, he is now a…
Russ Hurlburt is a professor of psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of South Dakota in 1976. Hurlburt explores inner experience — thoughts, feelings, sensations, and so on. He is the originator of the Descriptive Experience Sampling method, which uses random beepers and intensive…
Anirban Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Scientist in the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan. He possesses a Masters of Science in Condensed Matter Physics, Computer, Numerical Analysis, and Astrophysics from North Bengal University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from Jadavpur University. He received his PhD from the Indian Association for the Cultivation…
Michael Steven Anthony Graziano is an American scientist and novelist who is currently a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. His scientific research focuses on the brain basis of awareness. Graziano was born in Bridgeport Connecticut in 1967 and spent his childhood in Buffalo, New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from…
Max Tegmark is Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a BS in Physics and a BA in Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He also earned a MA and PhD in physics from University of California, Berkeley. Tegmark later returned to Europe and accepted an appointment as a…
Giulio Tononi is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who holds the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, as well as a Distinguished Chair in Consciousness Science, at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Tononi and collaborators have pioneered several complementary approaches to study sleep. These include genomics, proteomics, fruit fly models, rodent models employing multiunit /…
Thalia Wheatley is currently an associate professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She earned her BA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia. Wheatley’s areas of expertise include neural systems underlying social intelligence, perceiving cues…
Peter Ulric Tse is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. He holds a BA from Dartmouth (1984; majored in Mathematics and Physics), and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Harvard University (1998). Tse taught schoolchildren in the Peace Corps in Nepal after graduating from college, then…
Gino Yu is the Director of Digital Entertainment and Game Development and the Founding Head of the Multimedia Innovation Center at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he is currently an associate professor. He received his BS and PhD at the University of California at Berkeley and has over 60 conference and journal publications. Yu has…
Rudolph Tanzi is a Professor of Neurology and holds the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Neurology and Mental Retardation at Harvard University. He is also the Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. Tanzi has been investigating the molecular and genetic basis of neurological disease since…
Eran Zaidel is Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Neuroscience and of Cognition in the Department of Psychology at UCLA, and a member of UCLA’s Brain Research Institute. Born in Israel, his research interests include: hemispheric specialization, inter-hemispheric interactions; right-hemisphere language; error monitoring; and the human corpus callosum. Zaidel earned his AB in Mathematics from Columbia College,…
Roger N. Walsh is an Australian professor of Psychiatry, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, within UCI’s College of Medicine. Walsh graduated from Australia’s Queensland University with degrees in psychology, physiology, neuroscience, and medicine, and then came to the United States as a Fulbright…