CCN Director Eero Simoncelli Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Eero Simoncelli, director of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN), has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He joins 119 national and 25 international new members honored by the academy “in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
Simoncelli is the inaugural director of CCN and an internationally recognized pioneer in theoretical and computational neuroscience. His research encompasses a broad range of topics in the representation and analysis of visual images and sounds in both machine and biological sensory systems. His work has illuminated how the visual system extracts statistics of natural images to create representations of the world around us. He has established leading models of visual motion and texture perception, as well as of auditory perception, to represent what he calls ‘sound textures.’
Simoncelli earned his B.S. in physics from Harvard University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, a Sloan Research Fellow and the recipient of several prestigious honors, including the Swartz Prize and a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award.
In addition to his role as director of CCN, Simoncelli is an investigator with the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain. He also serves as a Silver Professor of Neural Science, Mathematics, Data Science and Psychology at New York University.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private nonprofit organization established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Scientists are elected to the academy by their peers. The academy is charged — together with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine — with providing science, engineering and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
