Jamshed Bharucha is an Indian-American cognitive neuroscientist who has served in leadership roles in higher education. He is the Founding Vice Chancellor of Sai University, Chennai, and is a member of the Board of Advisors of India's International Movement to Unite Nations (I.I.M.U.N.). Bharucha is President Emeritus of Cooper Union, a college located in Manhattan, New York City, having served as the 12th President of Cooper Union during the time of Cooper Union's financial crisis and tuition protests. Prior to becoming President of Cooper Union, Bharucha was Provost and Senior Vice President of Tufts University and Professor in the departments of Psychology, Music, and Neuroscience. Before his time at Tufts, Bharucha was the John Wentworth Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College. Bharucha was a Distinguished Fellow and Research Professor at Dartmouth College, where his research and teaching were focused on education data science. His research is in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, focusing on the cognitive and neural basis of the perception of music. He was editor of the interdisciplinary journal Music Perception. Early life and education Jamshed Bharucha was born in Mumbai, India. His father Jal Bharucha, a Parsi engineer from Mumbai, and mother Elizabeth Bharucha (born Elizabeth Emily Robinson) a musician from Albany, New York, met at the University of Michigan. His parents were founding members of the Bombay International School, from which Jamshed graduated. Bharucha studied violin in Mumbai, received an Associate’s Diploma in violin performance from Trinity College of Music (London) in 1973, and then continued to study violin at Vassar. Bharucha graduated from Vassar College where he majored in biopsychology (1978), then received an M.A. in philosophy from Yale University (1979) and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Harvard University (1983). At Harvard he worked with Stephen Kosslyn, William K. Estes and Roger Brown. Academic and administrative career Dartmouth College Bharucha began his academic career at Dartmouth College, where he was John Wentworth Professor and rose from Associate Dean for the Social Sciences to Deputy Provost to Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. He was the first Indian American dean of a school at an Ivy League institution. While in the Dartmouth administration, he established the Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center. His principal faculty appointment was in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, but he also taught in the Program in Linguistics