About us
The Wu Tsai Institute is an interdisciplinary research endeavor at Yale University that bridges biological, psychological, and computational disciplines to advance a more integrated understanding of the mind and brain.
Our mission is
to understand
human cognition
and explore human potential by sparking interdisciplinary inquiry.
The Wu Tsai Institute was founded in 2021 by a historic gift from Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai to reveal fundamental truths about the mind through the integrated study of the brain. Based at 100 College Street in New Haven with research linkages across Yale campuses, the Institute houses three interdependent centers that coordinate research activities: the Center for Neurodevelopment and Plasticity, the Center for Neurocognition and Behavior, and the Center for Neurocomputation and Machine Intelligence.
WTI enables interdisciplinary inquiry through fellowships for postdocs, grad students, and undergrads; shared research facilities and services with cutting-edge technologies; collaborative grants to nucleate disruptive ideas; and regular conferences, workshops, seminars, and opportunities for professional development.
The Institute integrates approaches across disciplines through common mathematical, statistical, and computational frameworks. WTI fosters a welcoming environment that provides equal opportunity to people of a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives. Learn more about our community.
Impact
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Institute Leadership
The Institute is governed by joint academic and administrative leadership who work in close collaboration with associated faculty, staff, and advisory bodies of internal and external stakeholders.
Director | Nick Turk-Browne
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Professor of Psychology + Professor of Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, and in the Child Study Center
Associate Director | Daniel Colón-Ramos
Director of the Center for Neurodevelopment, and Plasticity + Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Associate Director | John Lafferty
Director of the Center for Neurocomputation and Machine Intelligence + John C. Malone Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Associate Director | Kia Nobre
Director of the Center for Neurocognition and Behavior + Wu Tsai Professor of Psychology
Managing Director | Kelley Remole
Marvin Chun, Co-chair
Stephen Strittmatter, Co-chair
- Ronald Breaker, Ex Officio
- Jeffrey Brock, Ex Officio
- Damon Clark, At Large
- Daniel Colón-Ramos
- Michael Crair, Ex Officio
- James Duncan, Ex Officio
- Robert Frank, At Large
- Charles Greer, At Large
- Murat Gunel, Ex Officio
- Scott Holley, Ex Officio
- Pooja Khatri, Ex Officio
- Anthony Koleske, Ex Officio
- John Krystal, Ex Officio
- John Lafferty
- Rajit Manohar, At Large
- Linda Mayes, Ex Officio
- Wendy Berry Mendes, At Large
- Kia Nobre
- Marina Picciotto, At Large
- Ruzica Piskac, Ex Officio
- Tony Smith, Ex Officio
- Nick Turk-Browne
- Yihong Wu, Ex Officio
- Thomas Biederer
- Claudia Cea
- Phil Corlett
- Charles Greer
- Julia Leonard
- André Wibisono
- Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University
- James DiCarlo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Leslie Greengard, New York University and Flatiron Institute
- Kang Shen, Stanford University
- Daphna Shohamy, Columbia University