Secondary Faculty
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Allen, James F.
- Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning
B

Bennetto, Loisa
- Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience
- loisa.bennetto@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8712
- 492 Meliora Hall
Interests: Neurocognitive bases of autism; The role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties
C

Carlson, Greg
he/him/his
- Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse
F

Fiebelkorn, Ian
- Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Ian_Fiebelkorn@URMC.Rochester.edu | Office (585) 275-8668
- 5-6419 Medical Center
Interests: Cognition; Selective attention; Working memory; Visual processing
G

Gildea, Daniel
- Professor of Computer Science
- gildea@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7852
- 3019 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing
H

Haber, Suzanne
- Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- suzanne_haber@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-6959
- 5-6518 Medical Center
Interests: Basal Ganglia; degenerative disease

Huxlin, Krystel
- Professor, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
- James V. Aquavella Professor, Ophthalmology
Associate Chair for Research, David and Ilene Flaum Eye Institute
URMC Ombudsperson
Associate Director, Center for Visual Science
- khuxlin@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5495
- 2-6728 Medical Center
Interests: Improving vision after damage
K

Kanan, Christopher
- Associate Professor, Computer Science, Center for Visual Science, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Interests: Artificial intelligence; Continual Learning; Vision; Brain-inspired algorithms

Keane, Brian
- Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Brian_Keane@urmc.rochester.edu | Office (585) 276-3578

Kornack, David
- Associate Professor, Neuroscience
- david_kornack@urmc.rochester.edu | (MC) (585) 273-3140, (Mel) (585) 273-4719
- 5-7215 Medical Center
Interests: Neurogenesis in the Developing and Adult Mammalian Brain
L

Lin, Feng Vankee
- Associate Professor, Nursing, Psychiatry, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Neuroscience
- vankee_lin@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-6002
- 2w128 Helen Wood Hall
M

Marvin, Elizabeth West
- Minehan Family Professor, Eastman School of Music, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- bmarvin@esm.rochester.edu | (ESM) (585) 274-1076, (Mel) (585) 275-1812
- 26 Gibbs Street ESM
Interests: music cognition

Merigan, William
- Professor, Ophthalmology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
- wmerigan@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4872
- G-4101 Medical Center
Interests: In Vivo Adaptive Optics Imaging of the Retina

Mink, Jonathan
- Professor, Neurology, Child Neurology, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- jonathan_mink@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2808
- 5-5511 Medical Center
Interests: Physiology of movement; function of the basal ganglia; pathophysiology of movement disorders (Dystonia, Chorea); Tourette syndrome; Batten disease
N

Norman-Haignere, Samuel
- Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Biomedical Engineering
- samuel_norman-haignere@urmc.rochester.edu
- 4.133 Saunders Research Building
Interests: Auditory neuroscience and perception; Neural encoding of speech and music; Statistical modeling of neural responses; Temporal integration in sensory systems; Human intracranial recordings; Functional MRI; Cross-species comparisons
P

Peterman, Alison
- Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
- Co-Chair, Department of Philosophy
- alison.peterman@gmail.com
- 520 Lattimore
Interests: History and philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception
R

Romanski, Lizabeth
- Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Visual Science
- Associate Chair, Neurobiology & Anatomy
- Liz_Romanski@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-1469

Runner, Jeffrey T.
he/him/his
- Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering
- Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu
- 317L Lattimore Hall
Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface
S

Schieber, Marc
- Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- mschiebe@ur.rochester.edu
- 6-8537 Medical Center
Interests: Neural control of hand and finger movements
T

Temperley, David
- Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music
- dtemperley@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 274-1557
- 26 Gibbs Street

Thompson, Susan Peirce
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- Founder and CEO, Bright Line Eating Solutions, LLC
Interests: The neuroscience of food addiction; The key factors that drive sustainable weight loss; Willpower
W

White, Aaron
- Assistant Professor, Linguistics
- aaron.white@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8053
- 511A Lattimore Hall
Interests: computational psycholinguistics; syntactic and semantic theory; first language acquisition

Williams, David
- Professor, Optics, Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
- Allyn Chair, Medical Optics
- david.williams@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8672
Interests: Limits of human vision
Z

Zhu, Yuhao
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Center for Visual Science
Bridging Fellow in Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- yzhu@rochester.edu | office (585) 275-1192
- 3501 Wegmans Hall