Matthew Singh.

Matthew Singh, a professor of statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has joined the Beckman Institute.

Singh received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis, where he developed new machine-learning algorithms for individualized brain modeling. He completed a joint postdoctoral fellowship in psychology and electrical and systems engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, during which he developed methods for high-dimensional estimation of latent brain activity and designed new neurostimulation algorithms and hardware.

Singh's neuroscience research focuses on the computational significance of brain dynamics in higher cognitive abilities and the application of person-specific brain models to precision medicine and neural-engineering. This endeavor is intimately tied to methodological research and development in machine-learning and control-systems engineering.

At the Beckman Institute, Singh will direct the COmputation and NEurodynamics, or CONE, lab in the Brain Connectivity and Networks Working Group. He'll collaborate with psychology professors Sepideh Sadaghiani and Caterina Gratton. 

"I am most looking forward to discovering new collaborations in the cognitive neuroscience and biomedical engineering communities at Beckman," he said.