Rate My Professor Matthew Smith

Matthew A. Smith is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He also serves as Co-Director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Smith earned a B.S. in Biology and Psychology from Canisius College in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Neural Science from New York University in 2003. His research centers on systems neuroengineering, with a focus on understanding how populations of neurons interact to support visual perception, cognition, eye movements, and motor outputs. He combines computational and experimental methods, including neurophysiological recordings and analyses of neural circuits, to investigate these processes in both normal and disease states.

Smith has received the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award and the Research to Prevent Blindness Career Development Award. His research has been funded by the NIH, NSF, Research to Prevent Blindness, the Schaffer Foundation for Glaucoma Research, and the Hillman Foundation. He maintains affiliations with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and collaborates on interdisciplinary neuroscience initiatives.