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Matthew Goodwin
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Rhode Island
Professor Goodwin is an interdisciplinary faculty member affiliated with the College of Computer and Information Science and the Department of Health Sciences at Northeastern.
He is the co-PI and associate director of the first large-scale collaborative effort by computer and behavioral scientists addressing the early diagnosis and interventions for people with autism spectrum disorders, a research project supported by a National Science Foundation Award for Human Computer Interaction. He also has received a National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence Award for his research on autism spectrum disorder and its relationship to advanced technology.
Professor Goodwin previously served as the co-director and director of clinical research for the Autism and Communication Technology Initiative of the MIT Media Lab, where he was a member of the Cognitive Machines and Affective Computing groups and previously had been a postdoctoral fellow. Prior to joining the Northeastern faculty, he also was an adjunct associate research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University; an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island, where he earned his PhD in behavioral science; and associate director of research at the Groden Center in Providence.
