Daisuke Nagai, PhD

The similarity between the large-scale structure of the universe and the human brain originally inspired Daisuke Nagai's current research in computational cosmology. Today, the fields of cosmology and neuroscience are also connected through the roles of computation, data, and modeling, which involve multifaceted (physics and data-driven) approaches to unlock the mysteries of the universe and enhance human cognition.

computational modeling ;  data sharing ;  deep learning ;  high-performance computing ;  manifold learning ;  pattern classification ;  simulation ;  statistical methods  

algorithms ;  artificial intelligence ;  machine learning ;  predictive modeling  

Nagai is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale University. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2005. Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2008, he was a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology. He was also a founding co-director of the Yale Center for Research Computing and served as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Yale Physics Department.