RESEARCH

Current Projects

I am currently focusing on four projects:

1. The Trust Game (with Damon Tomlin, Brooks King-Casas, Read Montague, Colin Camerer & Steven Quartz). We simultaneously recorded the brain activity of two people engaged in a social dynamic exchange using h-fMRI to study the neural correlates of trust, strategic choice and social context. You can find more about it here.

2. Consistency of Preferences in Moral Decision-Making (with Ming Hsu & Steven Quartz). We are investigating how people make moral choices with regards to other individuals.

3. Tools for fMRI data analysis (with Amin Kayali, Read Montague & Steven Quartz). We are developping tools that allow the analysis of simultaneously acquired fMRI data. This is work in progress.

4. Bayesian Updating and Entropy (with Ulrik Beierholm, Peter Bossaerts & Steven Quartz). This is work in progress.

Past Projects

Past projects include:

Cryptography I evaluated the liability of smart cards containing protections against a new class of attacks (Differential Power Analysis) by using cryptographic and signal processing tools (Schlumberger Sema, Paris, France, April-July 2001) (abstract).

Antenna Arrays Study and Simulation of a Linear Antenna Array in a Noisy Environment (ESIEE, Paris, France, Sept-Dec 2000) (abstract).

Fingerprints Study and Implemented a computer-based algorithm to recognize fingerprints. Identification of two identical fingerprints was realized with a 99% accuracy. (ESIEE, Paris, France, Dec 1999 - Mar 2000) (abstract in French).

Full reports (in French) available upon request.

Academic Background

My academic background is in Electrical Engineering, and specifically in signal processing.

MS Electrical Engineering (2003). California Institute of Technology, CA.

Diplome d'Ingénieur (2002). Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique, Paris, France.

BS Mathematics (2000). Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

BS Computer Science (2000). Université de Marne-la-Vallée, Marne-la-Vallée, France.

Here you can find a list of all the classes that I have taken at Caltech.

I have also been a teaching assistant for several classes.

Press Coverage

Selected press coverage of my research and Dr. Steven Quartz' research.

Study of Social Interactions Starts With a Test of Trust. NY Times article covering our Science paper about Trust and Reciprocity (Apr 1, 2005).

Scientists Use fMRI to Catch Test Subjects in the Act of Trusting One Another. The official Caltech press release about our Science paper (Mar 31, 2005).

Anatomy of Give and Take. LA Times article covering my research on the Trust Game (Mar 18, 2005).

Searching for the Why of Buy. LA Times article about the emerging field of neuroeconomics (Feb 27, 2005).

If Your Brain Has a 'Buy Button,' What Pushes It? NY Times article about the emerging field of neuromarketing (Oct 19, 2004).

Mind Reading: The new science of decision making. It's not as rational as you think. Newsweek report about the Trust Game (Jul 5, 2004). Cover of the Newsweek International Edition (Aug 9, 2004).

Inside the mind of the consumer. The Economist talks about Neuroeconomics (Jun 10, 2004).

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