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Jonathan D. Victor is a Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Graduate School of Medical Sciences, affiliated with the Department of Neurology and the Feil Family Brain & Mind Research Institute. His research focuses on understanding neural computations, sensory processing, and brain dynamics in health and disease, particularly in vision, olfaction, and disorders of consciousness. He employs interdisciplinary approaches, integrating mathematical modeling, computational techniques, and experimental neuroscience.
Victor earned an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Harvard College in 1973 and completed an MD-PhD program at Rockefeller University and Cornell University, specializing in visual neuroscience. He completed a neurology residency at The New York Hospital and has been at Weill Cornell since 1986.
His research spans sensory systems (vision, gustation, olfaction), neural circuits, and sensorimotor integration. Key projects include analyzing perceptual spaces, image statistics in natural and medical contexts, active vision and olfaction, and large-scale brain dynamics in disorders of consciousness. He collaborates with Mary Conte (visual psychophysics), Keith Purpura (neurophysiology), and Nicholas Schiff (neurology and brain injury).
Recent publications highlight his work on visuomotor integration, statistical properties of natural scenes, locomotor dynamics in Drosophila, spectral analysis in medical imaging, and cortical synchronization mechanisms. His lab develops methods like spike train metrics and binless embedding to analyze neural data.
Scientific awards include the McKnight Scholars Award, NINCDS Teacher-Investigator Award, Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience, and the Cornell Discovery Award. Victor also serves as co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Computational Neuroscience and Vision Research.
