Secondary Faculty
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![James Allen](https://www.cs.rochester.edu/people/faculty/allen_james/assets/images/IMG_7055-120x180.jpg)
Allen, James F.
- Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning
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![Loisa Bennetto](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/psy//people/faculty/bennetto_loisa/assets/images/loisa.bennetto.jpg)
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
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![Greg Carlson](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/people/faculty/carlson_greg/assets/images/greg_carlson.jpg)
Carlson, Greg
he/him/his
- Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse
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![Profile Image](fiebelkorn_ian/assets/images/ian-fiebelkorn-headshot.jpg)
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
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![Daniel Gildea](https://www.cs.rochester.edu/people/faculty/gildea_daniel/assets/images/gildea-120-160.jpg)
Gildea, Daniel
- Professor of Computer Science
- gildea@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7230
- 3019 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing
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![Suzanne Haber](haber_suzanne/assets/images/haber.jpg)
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
![Krystel Huxlin](huxlin_krystel/assets/images/huxlin_k.jpg)
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
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![Chris Kanan profile](kanan_christopher/assets/chris-ur-2022-official.jpg)
Kanan, Christopher
- Associate Professor, Computer Science, Center for Visual Science, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Interests: Artificial intelligence; Continual Learning; Vision; Brain-inspired algorithms
![Profile Image](keane_brian/assets/images/keane_b.jpg)
Keane, Brian
- Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Brian_Keane@urmc.rochester.edu | Office (585) 276-3578
![David Kornack](kornack_david/assets/images/kornack.jpg)
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
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![Feng Vankee Lin](lin_feng-vankee/assets/images/lin.jpg)
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
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![Elizabeth Marvin West](marvin-west_elizabeth/assets/images/marvin.jpg)
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
![William Merigan](merigan_william/assets/images/merigan_w.jpg)
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
![Jonathon Mink](mink_jonathon/assets/images/mink.jpg)
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
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![Profile Image](norman-haignere_samuel/assets/images/woods-edited-small-zoomed-01.png)
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
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![Alison Peterman](peterman_alison/assets/images/alison.jpeg)
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
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![Lizabeth Romanski](romanski_lizabeth/assets/images/romanski.jpg)
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
![Jeff Runner](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/people/faculty/runner_jeff/assets/images/runner_new.jpg)
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
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![Marc Schieber](schieber_marc/assets/images/schieber_m.jpg)
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
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![David Temperley](temperley_david/assets/images/davy-09.jpg)
Temperley, David
- Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music
- dtemperley@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 274-1557
- 26 Gibbs Street
![Susan Peirce Thompson](thompson_susan-peirce/assets/images/spt.jpg)
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
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![Photo unavailable](https://www.rochester.edu/college/assets/cinnamon/images/na.png)
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
![David Williams](williams_david/assets/images/williams_d.jpg)
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
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![Profile Image](zhu-yuhao/assets/images/zhu_y.jpg)
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