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9/20 - present |
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Scientific Director,
Center for Computational Neuroscience.
FlatIron Institute, Simons Foundation
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9/96 - present |
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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. |
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8/00 - 8/20 |
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Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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1/93 - 6/00 |
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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. |
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1/87-1/93 |
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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. |
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summers, 90,91 |
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Research Contractor, NASA-Ames Research Center, Human Factors Division,
Vision Group.
Research on motion perception with
David Heeger and
Andrew Watson. |
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1/89-9/89 |
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Software Contractor, Fidelity Investments, Inc.
Design and implemention of software system for securities
analysis. |
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summer, 86 |
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Research Consultant, RCA David Sarnoff Research Center.
Research on multi-scale image representation and coding with Edward
Adelson, Peter Burt, and Jim Bergen. |
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1/85-9/85 |
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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. |
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9/82-6/84 |
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Research Assistant, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
Research on fluid dynamics of water droplet splash patterns,
with Thomas McMahon. |
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10/24 | |
Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience,
from the Society for Neuroscience.
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4/19 | |
Elected to
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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2/17 | |
Golden Brain award,
Minerva Foundation, for fundamental contributions to Visual Neuroscience.
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12/16 | |
Sustained Impact Paper award, from the IEEE Signal Processing
Society, for
"Perceptual image quality assessment: From
error visibility to structural similarity" (2004)
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11/15 | |
Silver Professorship, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, NYU
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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.
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10/14 | |
Top 10% Paper award, IEEE International Conference on Image
Processing, for
"Learning sparse filterbank
transforms with convolutional ICA"
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5/11 | |
Outstanding Faculty award, Graduate School Government Council of
the School of Arts and Sciences, NYU
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7/10 | |
Elected Associate member, Neural Computation and Adaptive
Perception program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
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2009 | |
Best Paper award,
from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, for
"Perceptual image quality
assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity" (2004)
|
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2008 | |
Best Paper award,
from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, for
"Image denoising using scale
mixtures of Gaussians in the wavelet domain" (2003)
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11/08 | |
Elected Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE)
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9/07 | |
Best Student Paper award, at the IEEE International Conference
on Image Processing, for
"Optimal denoising in redundant bases"
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12/03 | |
Outstanding Student Paper award, Neural Information
Processing Systems (NIPS) conference,
for
"Maximum likelihood estimation of a stochastic integrate-and-fire neural model"
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12/01 | |
Honorable Mention, Outstanding Student Paper award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, for
"Characterizing neural gain control using spike-triggered covariance"
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9/98-9/00 | |
Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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9/96-8/00 | |
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award,
National Science Foundation, for "Visual Information Processing"
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9/84-6/86 | |
Frank Knox Fellowship, from Harvard University, for
graduate study in the United Kingdom
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