Eero Simoncelli is an American computational neuroscientist and Silver Professor at New York University.
[1] In 2020, he became the inaugural director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience at the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation.
Simoncelli graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics at Harvard University in 1984.
[2] He then attended Cambridge University on a Knox Fellowship to study the Mathematical Tripos, after which he joined the graduate program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and computer science.
[3] He received an Engineering Emmy Award in 2015 with Zhou Wang, Alan Bovik, and Hamid Sheikh for the Structural Similarity Video Quality Measurement Model (SSIM).