Matthew S. Goodwin, Ph.D.
Matthew S. Goodwin, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Northeastern University
with joint appointments in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and College
of Computer & Information Science, where he coadministers a new doctoral program
in personal health informatics. He is a visiting assistant professor and the
former director of clinical research at the MIT Media Lab. Goodwin serves on the
executive board of the International Society for Autism Research, is chair of the
Autism Speaks Innovative Technology for Autism initiative, and has adjunct associate
research scientist appointments at Brown University. Goodwin has over 15 years
of research and clinical experience at the Groden Center working with children and
adults on the autism spectrum and developing and evaluating innovative technologies
for behavioral assessment and intervention, including telemetric physiological monitors, accelerometry sensors, and digital video and facial recognition systems.
He received his B.A. in psychology from Wheaton College and his M.A. and Ph.D.,
both in experimental psychology, from the University of Rhode Island. He completed
a postdoctoral fellowship in affective computing in the Media Lab in 2010.