Anna Balas Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College Dr. Anna Balas is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a Training & Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She has had a private adult and child psychiatry practice in Manhattan for over 35 years.… read more »
Jill Bargonetti Jill Bargonetti is a Full Professor at The City University of New York (CUNY) at Hunter College and The Graduate Center in the PhD Programs of Biology and Biochemistry. In 2015 she joined the Cornell Medical Center Hunter College Belfer Research team as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology.… read more »
Elizabeth Barnes Professor, Philosophy, University of Virginia Elizabeth Barnes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Her research interests are divided between metaphysics, social philosophy, feminist philosophy, and ethics. She’s particularly interested in the places where these topics overlap. She’s written a book on disability (The Minority Body), and is currently writing a book about the nature of health.… read more »
Clare Batty Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Kentucky Research Fellow, Centre for Olfactory Research & Applications at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London Clare Batty is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky and Research Fellow at the Centre for Olfactory Research and Applications at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London. Her research interests are in the philosophy of perception and in particular the philosophy of olfaction. … read more »
Patricia Bauer Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology, Emory University Patricia J. Bauer is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory University. She is a developmental scientists whose primary interests are in autobiographical or personal memory and its development. She earned her PhD from Miami University after which she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego.… read more »
Andrea Bayer Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Andrea Bayer has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1989, first in the Department of Prints and Photographs, and, from 1990, in the Department of European Paintings. There she has been involved in numerous exhibitions, most recently The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini (2011), and Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo (2012).… read more »
Ashley Bear Dr. Ashley Bear is a Program Officer with the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In this capacity, Dr. Bear manages a portfolio of projects dealing with critical issues in higher education.… read more »
Adrian Bejan Adrian Bejan is the J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor at Duke University. His research is in applied physics, thermodynamics and the Constructal Law as the law of physics that governs organization and evolution in nature. He is the author of 30 books and over 600 peer-reviewed journal articles.… read more »
Inna Belfer Health Scientist Administrator/Project Officer Office of Research on Women’s Health Dr. Belfer is world-recognized expert in human pain genetics and assessement of clinical pain and pain-related traits. She started her career as a neurologist, and then got extensive training in neurobiology and human genetics. Since 2001, her primary interest has been the relationship between gene polymorphisms and complex phenotypes such as pain, psychiatric disorders, and addictions.… read more »
David Bellos Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Princeton University David Bellos studied Modern Languages at Oxford and taught French at the Universities of Edinburgh, Southampton and Manchester before moving to Princeton, where he is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication.… read more »
Mabel Berezin Distinguished Professor, Arts & Sciences in Sociology, Cornell University Director, Institute for Europeans Studies, Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University Mabel Berezin is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Sociology and Director of the Institute for Europeans Studies at the Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. She writes on challenges to democratic cohesion and solidarity in Europe and the United States. … read more »
James Berger Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English, Yale University James Berger is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Yale University. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, his M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, literary theory, disability studies, neuroscience and literature, and apocalyptic literature and film, the latter including apocalypticism and the notion of the “post-apocalyptic” in exploring the limits of language, the relations between language and non-language, the status of discursive objects imagined as somehow–whether through global catastrophe, personal impairment, or religious or ethical imperative–outside the bounds of discourse.… read more »
Heather Berlin Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Heather Berlin is a cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She explores the complex interactions of the human brain and mind with the goal of contributing to improved treatment and prevention of impulsive and compulsive psychiatric disorders.… read more »
Sven Bernecker Professor of Philosophy, the University of California, Irvine Sven Bernecker is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. After obtaining his doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University, he held research positions at the University of Munich, Birkbeck College London, the University of Manchester, and the University of Vienna.… read more »
Ben Bernstein Psychologist, Educator, & Author Ben Bernstein, Ph.D., is a psychologist, educator,and author, with an expertise on performance and test stress . An honors graduate of Bowdoin College, Bernstein received his doctorate in Applied Psychology from the University of Toronto and later a master’s degree in Music Composition from Mills College. … read more »
Michael Bess Chancellor’s Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Michael Bess is Chancellor’s Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century Europe, with a particular interest in the interactions between social and cultural processes and technological change. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989.… read more »
Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University Tapomayukh “Tapo” Bhattacharjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University where he directs the EmPRISE Lab (https://emprise.cs.cornell.edu/). He completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from Georgia Institute of Technology and was an NIH Ruth L.… read more »
Akeel Bilgrami Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University Akeel Bilgrami got a B.A in English Literature from Elphinstone College, Bombay University and went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He has a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he is also a Professor on the Committee on Global Thought.… read more »
Alberto Bisin Professor of Economics, New York University Alberto Bisin is Professor of Economics at New York University. He is an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also a fellow of the NBER, the Center for Experimental Social Sciences at NYU, IGIER at Bocconi University, CIREQ at the University of Montreal, IZA at the University of Bonn.… read more »
Ned Block Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, New York University Ned Block (Ph.D., Harvard), Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in philosophy of mind and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science, and is currently writing a book on attention.… read more »
Paul Boghossian Silver Professor of Philosophy, NYU Paul Artin Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University and director of its New York Institute of Philosophy. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has published many papers in the philosophy of mind and epistemology, on such topics as color, rule-following, eliminativism, naturalism, self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth, realism, and relativism.… read more »
Grady Booch Chief Scientist for Software Engineering and Watson/M, IBM Research Grady Booch is Chief Scientist for Software Engineering as well as the Chief Scientist for Watson/M at IBM Research where he leads IBM’s research and development for embodied cognition. Having originated the term and the practice of object-oriented design, he is best known for his work in advancing the fields of software engineering and software architecture.… read more »
James Bower CEO, Numedeon Inc. Computational Neuroscientist James M. Bower is a Visiting Professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Bio-computation Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire, UK as well as an Affiliate Professor of Biology at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. He was previously a professor in the University of Texas System and at the California Institute of Technology. … read more »
Tega Brain Tega Brain is an artist and environmental engineer making eccentric engineering. Her work intersects art, ecology and engineering, addressing the scope and politics of emerging technologies. It takes the form of site specific public works, dysfunctional devices, experimental infrastructures and information systems.… read more »
Jack Z. Bratich Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University Jack Z. Bratich is Associate Professor and Chair of the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. His work applies autonomist social theory to popular culture and social movement media. He is a zine librarian at ABC No Rio and has co-taught courses at Bluestockings Bookstore in New York City.… read more »
Paul Breslin Professor of Nutritional Sciences, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences, Rutgers University Co-Director, Monell Science Apprenticeship Program View Papers / Presentations » Paul Breslin is professor of Nutritional Sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and is a Member of The Monell Chemical Senses Center, where he is Co-Director of the Monell Science Apprenticeship Program.… read more »
Bella Brodzki Professor of Comparative Literature, Sarah Lawrence Bella Brodzki is professor of Comparative Literature at Sarah Lawrence, where she teaches courses in world literature/global writing, translation studies, autobiography, and literary and cultural theory. She is the coeditor of Life/lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography; a special issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Narrative and Trauma, and author of Can These Bones Live?:… read more »
Paul Browde Psychiatrist, teaching faculty in the Department of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University Paul Browde is a psychiatrist and teaching faculty in the Department of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. The ethical stance of Narrative therapy shapes his clinical work. He works with both individuals and couples exploring the relational space and the reciprocal relationship between listening and telling.… read more »
Lucy L. Brown Clinical Professor in Neurology, Einstein College of Medicine Lucy L. Brown is a Clinical Professor in Neurology at Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She received her Ph.D. in Experimental/Physiological Psychology from NYU in 1973. During a post-doctoral fellowship at Einstein, she worked on visualizing dopamine neurons and testing their plasticity in reward systems in animals.… read more »
Stephanie Brown Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine , SUNY Stony Brook Stephanie Brown is an Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Dr. Brown’s research currently focuses on the neuro-affective mechanisms underlying altruistic and prosocial behavior.… read more »
W. Warner Burke E.L. Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University W. Warner Burke, PhD, is the E.L. Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University where he has been since 1979. He teaches leadership and organization change and development. His research focuses on learning agility, multi- rater feedback, and leadership.… read more »
György Buzsáki Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, New York University View Papers / Presentations » György Buzsáki identified a hierarchical organization of brain oscillations and proposed how these rhythms support a ‘brain syntax’, a physiological basis of cognitive operations. His work changed how we think about information encoding in the healthy and diseased brain, such as epilepsy and psychiatric diseases.… read more »