The Niv Lab focuses on several distinct and inter-related lines of research related to understanding the computational basis of learning and decision making in the brain. We use behavior – and sometimes neural data – to constrain computational models of how experience changes future decisions and choices (i.e., learning), and we apply this understanding to understanding mental health conditions and tailoring their treatment.
The lab is full and we are not hiring right now. We will hopefully be recruiting graduate students next academic year (for Fall 2026). You can read our FAQ here.
Lab News
March 2025 Congratulations to Luke Cho for receiving the OURSIP grant which will support his summer internship at the Niv Lab!
March 2025 Kudos to Isabel and Dan who participated in the Society for Affective Science Conference 2025! Isabel presented her work on …
March 2025 Jialing has been awarded a grant from the Centre for Health and Wellbeing for her exciting research proposal! Congratulations!!
February 2025 Congratulations to Dan-Mircea Mirea for giving a data blitz talk titled “Individuals with depression show heightened sensitivity to social media …
February 2025 Congratulations to Dan who is a graduate fellow at Data-Driven Social Science for the Spring semester! He has also been …
February 2025 In super exciting news, Jamie and Yael's proposal to NJ ACTS was selected for funding!
January 2025 Goodbye Seohyun! We wish you the very best!!
January 2025 Hearty congratulations to Jamie for being awarded the Dr Shuqiao Yao memorial scholarship!!
January 2025 We are very excited to welcome Caroline Jahn as the Associate Research Manager at Niv Lab!
January 2025 After a fierce competition, Dan's workshop, Reinforcement Learning 'in the Wild': ModelingReal-World Data, was accepted to RLDM. The website is …
January 2025 Gili was selected to be an AI LAB-NAM fellow for Spring 2025! Congrats Gili!!
October 2024 Congratulations to Jamie Chiu and Branson Byers for passing their Generals exams!!!
September 2024 Congratulations to Dan-Mircea Mirea for winning the 2024 Niv Lab Challenge!
September 2024 Welcome to Ella Tuominen, who is visiting us this semester and is a graduate student from UCL!
August 2024 Woohoo! Our new Conte Center on Understanding Latent Cause Inference in Health and Illness is officially awarded! This is a joint Center …
August 2024 We will miss you Kepler, good luck!!
July 2024 We are excited to welcome Deepta Chandrasekhar as our lab manager!
May 2024 Congratulations to Dr. Oded Bein for starting his new position as Faculty of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical School! …
December 2023 Goodbye Ellie, we will miss you! Good luck with the rest of grad school! Once finished, Ellie will join the …
November 2023 Congratulations to Eleanor Holton, who won the 2023 Niv Lab Challenge!
