Eero Simoncelli is an American computational neuroscientist and Silver Professor at New York University. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator from 2000 to 2020.[1] In 2020, he became the inaugural director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience at the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation.
Eero Simoncelli | |
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| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Cambridge University MIT |
| Known for | Steerable pyramid SSIM Bayesian models of perception Texture models Image priors |
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| Fields | Computational neuroscience Computational vision Visual perception Image Processing |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania New York University |
| Thesis | Distributed Representation and Analysis of Visual Motion (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Adelson |
| Doctoral students | Liam Paninski |
Education and early career
editSimoncelli graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics at Harvard University in 1984.[2] He then attended Cambridge University on a Knox Fellowship to study the Mathematical Tripos, after which he joined the graduate program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and computer science.[1] He received his master's degree in 1988 and his PhD in 1993. He then joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor, and in 1996 he moved to New York University.
Awards and professional recognition
editIn 2009, he became an IEEE Fellow.[3] He received an Engineering Emmy Award in 2015 with Zhou Wang, Alan Bovik, and Hamid Sheikh for the Structural Similarity Video Quality Measurement Model (SSIM).[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Eero P. Simoncelli, PhD". Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
- ^ "Eero P. Simoncelli". Simons Foundation. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "IEEE Fellows". Information Theory Society. IEEE. Archived from the original on 20 January 2010. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "Honorees Announced for the 67th Engineering Emmy Awards". Television Academy. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2017.