Eero Simoncelli is an American computational neuroscientist and Silver Professor at

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. He was a

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Investigator from 2000 to 2020. In 2020, he became the inaugural director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience at the Flatiron Institute of the

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Education and early career

Simoncelli graduated

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with a bachelor's degree in physics at

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in 1984. He then attended

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on a Knox Fellowship to study the

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, after which he joined the graduate program at the

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in electrical engineering and computer science. He received his master's degree in 1988 and his PhD in 1993. He then joined the faculty at the

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as an assistant professor, and in 1996 he moved to

Awards and professional recognition

In 2009, he became an

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. He received an Engineering Emmy Award in 2015 with Zhou Wang,

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, and Hamid Sheikh for the Structural Similarity Video Quality Measurement Model (SSIM).

References

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