Matthew Botvinick, M.D., Ph.D.

Botvinick is the senior director of research at DeepMind and an honorary professor at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London. Botvinick completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University in 1989 and medical studies at Cornell University in 1994 before completing a Ph.D. in psychology and cognitive neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. He served as an assistant professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania until 2007 and a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton University until joining DeepMind in 2016. His work at DeepMind straddles the boundaries between cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence and computational and experimental neuroscience.