Gaurav Suri

Dr. Gaurav Suri is a computational neuroscientist and an experimental psychologist. He studies the brain mechanisms that shape human cognitions, emotions, and actions. He is interested in examining the proposition that the mind emerges from the interaction of simple processing units and that these interactions can be modeled using neural networks.

Gaurav is an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University and a Distinguished Scientist (Visiting) at The Center of Affective Science at Stanford University.

​Gaurav obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He also has an M.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Stanford University.

Gaurav is the recipient of numerous awards, honors, fellowships, and research grants. His research has been published in leading journals, including Psychological Review, Nature, Trends in Cognitive Science, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and The Journal of Mathematical Psychology. Along with Jay McClelland, he is the co-author of the forthcoming book The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in Humans and Machines (Suri and McClelland, Basic Books, Scheduled for Fall 2025).

​Gaurav came to academics as the 'second innings' of his career. Before academics​, Gaurav was a Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting. He is also the founding member of two successful entrepreneurial ventures. Finally, Gaurav is a co-author of the prize-winning novel A Certain Ambiguity (Suri & Bal, Princeton, 2007).