New Faculty: Nori Jacoby

2024 New Faculty

By | Staff , A&S Communications

9/6/2024

Nori Jacoby

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Academic focus:

Cognitive science, psychology

Current research project:

Perception and culture co-evolution

Previous positions:

Research group leader, Computational Auditory Perception Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, 2018-2024
Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University, 2016–2018
Postdoctoral researcher, Cognitive science, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
Postdoctoral researcher, Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014–2016

Academic background:

Ph.D., Computational neuroscience, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2014
M.S., Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003
B.Sc., Mathematics and physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2000

Last book read:

“Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions” by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths et al

In your own time/when not working:

Spending time with my family, learning to ski

Courses you’re most looking forward to teaching:

Perception

What most excites you about Cornell:

I am very excited about the scientific research environment, meeting and working with new people.

Social media:

@norijacoby

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