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Robert (Bob) Wilson is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. His research interests focus on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, particularly Reinforcement Learning, Decision Making, Computational Psychiatry, and Computational Aging. Wilson’s work aims to build mathematical theories of the mind and brain to explain behavior, health, mental illness, and cognitive decline. He conducts experiments that involve computational modeling, behavioral assessments, neuroimaging, and neurostimulation to probe the algorithms underlying human behavior. His investigations also examine various types of behaviors including explore-exploit decision making and phishing email detection. Through his research, Wilson explores how decision-making processes function in the human mind and how these processes can be modeled and understood mathematically.
Georgia Institute of Technology • Atlanta, Georgia
Teaching and conducting research in the field of psychology.
Department of Computer Science: GRE scores are optional for Fall 2026.