Affiliates

Business School - Newark

Cell Biology and Neuroscience

  • Victoria Abraira

    Victoria Abraira

    Trying to understand the cellular and synaptic substrates underlying innocuous touch perception by elucidating the functional organization of sensory neurons in mouse hairy skin and uncovering the neural codes of touch perception in the spinal cord dorsal horn.

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  • Kelvin Y. Kwan

    Kelvin Y. Kwan

    Molecular mechanisms underlying sensory and cognitive function in mouse models of human diseases. The lab is interested in understanding how mutations in chromatin remodeling proteins results in hyperactivity and circling behavior in mutant mice. Identifying transcriptome changes in affected neurons by deep sequencing will help us understand how the activity and development of these neurons have been altered. Our goal is to bridge the molecular changes in neurons to the abnormal behavior observed in these mouse models.

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  • David Margolis

    David Margolis

     

    Sensory processing, decision-making, and neural plasticity in mice. Record and manipulate specific neurons and neural circuits as mice perform learned tactile behaviors to understand sensory-guided decision-making from the synaptic to the network levels. We are also interested in how brain injury and neurological disorders impact neuronal activity and behavior.

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  • Max Tischfield

    Max Tischfield

    Our lab models human neurodevelopmental disorders in mouse with a particular focus on Tourette Syndrome (TS). Despite the prevalence of TS in the general population (~1/100 individuals), the underlying pathophysiology is poorly understood. We are currently using CRISPR-based approaches to generate mouse models that harbor recently discovered human point mutations found in sporadic forms of TS. With these disease mouse models, we are investigating how circuit development and function in the brain are perturbed by the human mutations using a combination of mouse genetics, circuit labeling techniques, optogenetics, electrophysiology, and mouse behavior. Additionally, the mouse models will provide powerful tools for drug screening approaches that can inform complementary studies with human iPSC lines.

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Computer Science

  • Karl Stratos

    Karl Stratos

    I develop computational models to learn generalizable and human-readable representations from unlabeled data, with a focus on natural language processing. To this end, I rely on mathematical frameworks such as Information theory: a representation is good if it transmits most information. Linear algebra: a representation is good if it lies in an optimal subspace. I am also interested in applications of learned representations to practical problems such as entity linking. I am not a theoretician by trade, but I enjoy working with theoreticians to study topics relevant to representation learning such as estimating mutual information.

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  • Sungjin Ahn

    Sungjin Ahn

    Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Bayesian Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Cognitive/neuroscience-inspired learning algorithms.

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  • Alex Borgida

    Alex Borgida

    Development of languages and models for knowledge representation and reasoning.

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  • Abdeslam Boularias

    Abdeslam Boularias

    Machine learning, robotics, planning and learning in partially observable domains, reinforcement learning.

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  • Gerard De Melo

    Gerard De Melo

    Natural language processing, lexical semantics, deep learning, artificial intelligence, knowledge acquisition, multilingual language technology, data mining.

     

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  • Mubbasir Kapadia

    Mubbasir Kapadia

    Aims to develop agent-centric models for simulating crowd dynamics that challenge foundational assumptions in crowd modeling, while providing solutions that are validated using comparisons to real data, and virtual reality experiments. These solutions can be used to optimize the behavioral dynamics of real crowds and model the relationships between crowd flow and environment features, with applications in predictive analytics and crowd management, and environment layout design. His other research interests include real-time multi-agent planning, character animation for autonomous virtual humans, and digital storytelling.

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  • Casimir Kulikowski

    Casimir Kulikowski

    Image interpretation using planning and learning techniques; methods of theory formation for classification, configuration, planning and design problems with biomedical applications.

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  • Dimitris Metaxas

    Dimitris Metaxas

    American Sign Language and Gesture recognition from video, human identification and intent recognition from video, human computer interaction, shape and motion representation for recognition.

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Economics

  • Barry Sopher

    Barry Sopher

    Experimental Economics, Decision and Game Theory, Uncertainty and Information Economics

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    Info Page | Center for Economic Behavior, Institutions and Design (CEBID) Website

  • Tomas Sjöström

    Tomas Sjöström

    Interested in Decision Theory, Game Theory and Neuroeconomics.

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    Info Page | Center for Economic Behavior, Institutions and Design (CEBID) Website

Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology

  • Louis Sass

    Louis Sass

    Philosophy and psychopathology (especially disorders of self); phenomenological philosophy; Wittgenstein; philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis.

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La Salle University, Department of Psychology

  • Sharon Lee Armstrong

    Sharon Lee Armstrong

    Clinical Counseling Psychology

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Lexical Research

  • Robert Krovetz

    Robert Krovetz

    Word sense disambiguation and lexical semantics; morphology; multiword expressions; applications of natural language processing to education and information retrieval.

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Linguistics

  • Veneeta Dayal

    Veneeta Dayal

    Semantic theory and the syntax-semantics interface from a cross-linguistic perspective.

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  • Viviane Deprez

    Viviane Deprez

    Theoretical and comparative syntax of natural languages focusing on models of parameterization for deriving grammars from universal principles.

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    Info Page | Comparative and Experimental Linguistics Lab (CELL) Website

  • Kenneth Safir

    Kenneth Safir

    Syntactic theory; explanation of anaphora crosslinguistically and across the boundaries of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and language acquisition; formal learnability theory as applied to language acquisition.

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Mathematics

  • Eduardo Sontag

    Eduardo Sontag

    Alternative models of computation and the mathematical theory of neural networks.

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Ohio State University

  • Craige Roberts

    Craige Roberts

    I study linguistic semantics and pragmatics, and am also interested in closely related issues in the philosophy of language.

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Philosophy

  • Elisabeth Camp

    Elisabeth Camp

     My research focuses on thoughts and utterances that don’t fit standard propositional models. I am especially interested in metaphor and other forms of figurative speech; in slurs and other forms of ‘loaded’ language; in cognitive perspectives and emotions; and in non-sentential representational systems such as maps and diagrams.

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  • Andrew Egan

    Andrew Egan

    I’m interested in intentionality in thought and language and how they’re related. I do work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and rational decision theory.

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  • Frances Egan

    Frances Egan

    Philosophy of mind and psychology, the epistemology of science and the explanatory role of representational content in computational psychology.

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  • Barry Loewer

    Barry Loewer

    Philosophical problems concerning intentionality and consciousness; issues of non-monotonic reasoning.

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Philosophy, Newark

  • Kenneth Aizawa

    Kenneth Aizawa

    Philosophy of science, especially philosophy of psychology

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Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

  • Brian Keane

    Brian Keane

    Perceptual organization—how it works in healthy individuals and how it goes wrong among those with schizophrenia; the clinical and neural implications of visual abnormalities in psychotic disorders; how the mind constructs/maintains representations of objects.

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  • Anna Konova

    Anna Konova

    Clinical translational neuroscience of addiction, brain imaging, decision neuroscience, computational psychiatry

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Psychology

  • Mark West

    Mark West

    This laboratory studies the activity of neurons that receive dopaminergic synaptic input during behaviors correlated with dopamine transmission. Our long range goal is to better understand the activity of dopamine's target neurons with respect to reward learning and drug abuse.

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     The West Lab

    Number: 848-445-8886 

  • Shana Cole

    Shana Cole

    Social cognitive and perceptual processes involved in successful goal pursuit; self-regulation and self-control.

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  • Arnold Glass

    Arnold Glass

    Computer models of syntactic parsing and language comprehension.

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  • Judith Hudson

    Judith Hudson

    Cognitive development; autobiographic memory and development of planning skills.

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  • Lee Jussim

    Lee Jussim

    Social perception, stereotypes and prejudice, science reform, applied philosophy of science.

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  • Terry Wilson

    Terry Wilson

    Behavior therapy; social learning theory; treatment of eating disorders.

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School of Communication and Information

  • Vivek Singh

    Vivek Singh

    I direct the Behavioral Informatics Lab at Rutgers University. Our lab looks at multiple problems at the intersection of Big Data Analytics, Computational Social Science, and Multimedia Information Systems. The research group focuses on using mobile phones, sensors, and social media for understanding and influencing human behavior. We develop new algorithms and design interfaces that support understanding human behavior while actively responding to issues like algorithmic bias and privacy concerns.

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    Number: 848-932-7588 

  • Mark Aakhus

    Mark Aakhus

    Mark Aakhus investigates the relationship between communication and design, especially the uses of technological and organizational design, to augment human interaction and reasoning for decision-making and conflict-management. He uses multiple methods from discourse analysis and computational social science to examine language, argumentation, and social interaction in professional practice, organizational processes, and information infrastructures.

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  • Nicholas Belkin

    Nicholas Belkin

    Human interaction with information, particularly in information retrieval.

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  • Sunyoung Kim

    Sunyoung Kim

    Human-Computer Interaction, interaction design, mobile and ubiquitous computing, healthcare, everyday wellbeing, environmental sustainability, behavior change

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Spanish and Portuguese

  • Nuria Sagarra

    Nuria Sagarra

    Psycholinguistics: linguistic and cognitive factors modulating morphosyntactic processing in adult learners (e.g., executive control, cognitive load, language experience), using behavioral (eye tracking, self-paced reading) and electrophysiological (ERPs) techniques.

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  • Liliana Sanchez

    Liliana Sanchez

    Bilingual acquisition of syntax. Convergence and crosslinguistic influence in syntactic representations in bilinguals

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William Paterson University of New Jersey

  • Daniel Kolak

    Daniel Kolak

    Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Philosophy of Physics.

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