Neurosciences Theory Center Faculty

How do our mental lives and behavior arise from neural computation?

Faculty in the Neurosciences Theory Center at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute hail from backgrounds in computer science, statistics, psychology, and applied physics, but all share an interest in advancing our theoretical understanding of the mind and brain through computational analysis.

About the Neurosciences Theory Center

Meet our affiliated faculty

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Shaul Druckmann

Associate Professor of Neurobiology, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering

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Emily Fox

Emily Fox

Professor of Statistics and of Computer Science

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Surya Ganguli headshot

Surya Ganguli

Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Neurobiology and of Electrical Engineering

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Jay McClelland

Jay McClelland

Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Psychology and, by courtesy, of Linguistics and of Computer Science

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Xiao-Jing Wang headshot

Xiao-Jing Wang

Professor of Neural Science, New York University Visiting Scholar, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford Medicine

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Dan Yamins at the Stanford Neurosciences Building

Daniel Yamins

Associate Professor of Psychology and of Computer Science