Eero P. Simoncelli

Research Interests

Representation and analysis of visual information: mathematical models of biological visual processing, visual perception, statistical inverse problems in image processing and computer vision.

Education

1993 Mass. Inst. of Technology Ph.D. Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sci.
1988 Mass. Inst. of Technology M.S. Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sci.
1986 King's College, University of Cambridge Cert. Adv. Study Mathematics Tripos, Parts II/III
1984 Harvard University B.A. summa cum laude Physics

Employment

    9/20 - present  Director, Center for Computational Neuroscience. FlatIron Institute, Simons Foundation
9/96 - present  Professor (Full Professor, 9/07-present; Associate Professor, 9/99-8/07; Assistant Professor, 9/96-8/99),
Departments of Neural Science, Mathematics, Data Science, and Psychology, New York University.
    8/00 - 8/20  Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
1/93 - 6/00 Assistant Professor (adjunct, 9/96 - 6/00), Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania. Member of the General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory.
1/87-1/93 Research Assistant, Vision Science Group (now called the Vision and Modeling Group) , MIT Media Laboratory. Advisor: Edward Adelson. Thesis committee: Alan Willsky, Berthold Horn, Alex Pentland.
summers, 90,91 Research Contractor, NASA-Ames Research Center, Human Factors Division, Vision Group. Research on motion perception with David Heeger and Andrew Watson.
1/89-9/89 Software Contractor, Fidelity Investments, Inc. Design and implemention of software system for securities analysis.
summer, 86 Research Consultant, RCA David Sarnoff Research Center. Research on multi-scale image representation and coding with Edward Adelson, Peter Burt, and Jim Bergen.
1/85-9/85 Research Consultant, AT&T Bell Laboratories. Research on applications of neural networks to the Traveling Salesman Problem and simulation of behavioral characteristics of Limax Maximus (common garden slug), with Alan Gelperin, John Hopfield and David Tank.
9/82-6/84 Research Assistant, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University. Research on fluid dynamics of water droplet splash patterns, with Thomas McMahon.

Honors

4/19 Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2/17 Golden Brain award, Minerva Foundation, for fundamental contributions to Visual Neuroscience.
12/16 Sustained Impact Paper award, from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, for "Perceptual image quality assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity" (2004)
11/15 Silver Professorship, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, NYU
9/15 67th Engineering Emmy award (shared with co-authors Zhou Wang, Al Bovik, and Hamid Scheikh), awarded by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for development of the Structural Similarity (SSIM) model, widely used to measure the perceptual quality of images and video.
10/14 Top 10% Paper award, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, for "Learning sparse filterbank transforms with convolutional ICA"
5/11 Outstanding Faculty award, Graduate School Government Council of the School of Arts and Sciences, NYU
7/10 Elected Associate member, Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
2009 Best Paper award, from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, for "Perceptual image quality assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity" (2004)
2008 Best Paper award, from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, for "Image denoising using scale mixtures of Gaussians in the wavelet domain" (2003)
11/08 Elected Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
9/07 Best Student Paper award, at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, for "Optimal denoising in redundant bases"
12/03 Outstanding Student Paper award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, for "Maximum likelihood estimation of a stochastic integrate-and-fire neural model"
12/01 Honorable Mention, Outstanding Student Paper award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, for "Characterizing neural gain control using spike-triggered covariance"
9/98-9/00 Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
9/96-8/00 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, National Science Foundation, for "Visual Information Processing"
9/84-6/86  Frank Knox Fellowship, from Harvard University, for graduate study in the United Kingdom

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