Jamshed Bharucha

Jamshed Bharucha is an Indian-American cognitive neuroscientist who has served in leadership roles in higher education in the United States and in India.

Bharucha is the founding vice chancellor emeritus of Sai University, Chennai, and was previously the inaugural vice chancellor of SRM University, Andhra Pradesh. Bharucha is also 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 psychology, music, and neuroscience departments. 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 returned to Dartmouth as a distinguished fellow and research professor, where his research and teaching are focused on the cognitive foundations of education. He now teaches at both Dartmouth and online at Sai University. 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.