Matthew Botvinick is Senior Director of Research and Senior Technology and Policy Advisor at Google DeepMind. He joined DeepMind in 2016 after twenty years in academia, starting with a Ph.D. in the Neural Basis of Cognition from Carnegie Mellon University, followed by faculty positions at University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. Botvinick has authored more than 150 peer reviewed articles, spanning AI, deep learning, reinforcement learning, cognitive science and computational neuroscience. Botvinick holds an M.D. degree from Cornell University with board certification in Psychiatry. Alongside his work at Google DeepMind, he is currently a Resident Fellow at Yale Law School.
