Mailing address:
Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science
New York University
6 Washington Place
New York NY, 10003

Email: david.heeger@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-7868

Bio: B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania (1983). Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1987). Postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Media Lab (1987-1990). Research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center (1990-1991). Assistant Professor at Stanford University (1991-1998). Associate Professor at Stanford (1998-2002). Over 40 journal papers. Three US patents. David Marr Prize in computer vision (1987). Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1994). Troland Award in psychology from the National Academy of Sciences (2002). Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences, New York University (2006).

Curriculum Vitae

Wikipedia entry

Alan Heeger (my dad) was awarded the NobelPrize in Chemistry 2000!
Photos from the award ceremony, banquet, and other events in Stockholm.

What I do for fun.

Research

• Lab webpage (computational neuroimaging laboratory)
• Research summary
• Publications
• Demos
• Software

Research centers and facilities at NYU

• Center for Brain Imaging
• Center for Neuroeconomics

Teaching

Courses:

• Perception (undergraduate)
• Laboratory in perception (undergraduate)
• Perception (graduate)
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging lab (graduate)
• Sensory & motor systems (graduate)

Handouts:

• Signal detection theory (intro)
• Signal detection (advanced)
• Linear systems theory (intro)
• Linear systems (advanced)
• Membrane equation
• Poisson model of spike generation
• Motion estimation

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