Matthew Smart, Ph.D.
Flatiron Research Fellow, Developmental Dynamics, CCB, Flatiron Institute![](https://simonsfoundation.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/27092928/Smart_Matthew-scaled.jpg?auto=format&w=120&h=120&fit=crop&crop=faces&q=90)
Matthew Smart joined the Center for Computational Biology in November 2022. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Toronto and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo. His research interests include self-organizing systems at various scales and statistical learning approaches. During his doctoral studies, Matthew worked on statistical physics models to study the collective transcription of interacting cell types.