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Matthew Goodwin

Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary With Bouvé

Matthew S. Goodwin is a founding and key faculty member of a new doctoral program in personal health informatics and director of the Computational Behavioral Science Laboratory at Northeastern University. He is also a visiting associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School (2018-2020), the former director of clinical research at the MIT Media Lab (2008-2011) and adjunct associate research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at Brown University.

Goodwin has 20 years of research and clinical experience working with children and adults on the autism spectrum and developing and evaluating innovative technologies for behavioral assessment and intervention, including naturalistic video and audio capture, telemetric physiological monitors, wireless accelerometry sensors, and digital video/facial recognition systems.

He has received numerous honors, including being named an Aspen Institute Health Scholar (2015), Princeton Lecture Series Fellowship for career contribution to autism research in 2015, Hariri Award for Transformative Computational Science (2014), Best Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (2009), Peter Merenda Award in Statistics and Research Methodology from the University of Rhode Island (2008), and a Dissertation Award from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (2007).