Herbert Wu is assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After receiving a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University, he did his postdoctoral work at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University.

The goal of Wu’s lab is to elucidate the circuits and computation underlying social decision-making and understand how they might go awry. Social animals, compelled by a combination of social and ecological pressures, frequently engage in collective behavior such as foraging, migration and governance. These behaviors are often orchestrated by complex social relationships to establish and enforce norms, allocate resources and resolve conflicts. Deficits in forming and maintaining these relationships also profoundly impact the daily lives of individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism. The Wu lab is developing novel paradigms in mice to study the neural dynamics underlying collective behavior using cutting-edge systems and computational methods.