Ogi Ogas, Ph.D.

Ogi Ogas received his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Boston University, where he designed mathematical models of learning, memory, and vision. He is co-author of A Billion Wicked Thoughts and A Billion Angry Brains. Ogi was also a Department of Homeland Security Fellow and conducted biodefense research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

He used cognitive techniques from his brain research to win half a million dollars on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Sai Gaddam was his phone-a-friend (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMdA4P_i7-8). Ogas also appeared on 22 episodes of Millionaire and on the iPhone game as a Guest Expert. Ogas lost to Jeopardy phenom Ken Jennings in the legendary finals of Grand Slam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtPA1KMrgc), a tournament of the greatest game show winners of all time.

He resides in Boston.

Books by Ogi Ogas, Ph.D.

A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire

by Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam

Dutton Adult

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A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships

by Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam

Plume

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A Billion Wicked Thoughts

What Really Turns People On? Men and women haven't been honest. What they say they like is often quite different from what they look for when nobody is watching. But how can we learn the truth?

Ogas and Gaddam analyzed a billion web searches, a million Web sites, a million erotic videos, a million erotic stories, millions of personal ads, tens of thousands of digitized romance novels, and much more. Is your partner telling you what really turns him on? Is your partner faking her pleasure? And just how unusual are your own desires?