Moran Cerf

Moran Cerf (Hebrew: מורן סרף; born 1977) is an American-French-Israeli neuroscientist, professor of business (at Columbia University), investor and former white hat hacker. He is the founder of Think-Alike and B-Cube and the host and curator of PopTech, one of the top 5 leading conferences in the world. Cerf is also the president and co-founder of the Human Single Neuron society. As of 2013, he is a member of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. Cerf has received numerous awards including the Templeton Foundation "Extraordinary Minds" award, and the Chicagoan award. In 2016 he was named one of the "40 Leading Professors Below 40". He has won several national storytelling competitions, most notably The Moth GrandSLAM, multiple times. Cerf is the Alfred P. Sloan screenwriting professor at the American Film Institute (AFI) where he teaches an annual workshop on science in films. He is also a science consultant to Hollywood films and TV series (Limitless, Bull, Falling Water, etc.). He has spoken publicly on topics of neuroscience, business, decision making and hacking (TED, PopTech, Google, TEDx, TED-Ed) and his views on the risks of hacking into humans' brains often appear in the media.