Scholar
Matthew Botvinick
Google Scholar ID: eM916YMAAAAJ
Google DeepMind, Yale Law School, University College London
Citations & Impact
Citations
54,142
H-index
89
i10-index
173
Publications
20
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0
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Academic Achievements
- Has held multiple academic positions including Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. Since 2016, he has been working at Google DeepMind as the Senior Director of AI Research and other roles.
Research Experience
- 1994-1995 Intern in Medicine/Psychiatry, University Health Center, Pittsburgh; 1996-1999 Resident in Psychiatry, University Health Center, Pittsburgh; 1999-2002 NIMH Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; 2001-2002 Postgraduate Fellow, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 2000-2002 Private Practice in General Psychiatry, Mill Valley, California; 2024 Legal Fellow, Google DeepMind Legal Team, Mountain View, California; 2025- ISP Resident Fellow, Yale Law School.
Education
- 1985-1989 B.A., Stanford University (With Distinction); 1989-1990 M.A., Columbia University (Art History); 1990-1994 M.D., Cornell University Medical College (With Honors); 1996-2001 Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University (Psychology/Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, specialization in deep learning).
Background
- Research interests include psychology, cognitive and computational neuroscience, with a specialization in deep learning. Currently, he is the Senior Director of AI Research and Senior Technology and Policy Advisor at Google DeepMind, an Honorary Professor at Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, and a Resident Fellow at Yale Law School.
Miscellany
- Licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania, USA, and certified by the National Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 2000.
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