Matt Kaufman

I am a fourth year graduate student at Stanford University, studying in the Neurosciences program.

I am in the lab of Krishna Shenoy working on how the brain plans movements. I have most recently been working on determining the differential roles of excitatory and inhibitory neurons. I have previously worked with Tom Clandinin, Stephen Baccus, and Shaul Hestrin. I have also previously done research with John Huguenard using computer simulations of the interneuron network that generates the gamma rhythm. Other previous work includes research with Brian Knutson in SPANlab using fMRI to examine anticipation of reward, focusing on probability of receiving a positive outcome, and work with Pat Langley on a value-driven AI architecture named ICARUS (somewhat outdated link).

Other links:

A picture of me not playing saxophone in a forest
My parrot shamelessly selling out
Pictures from trips to Patagonia, Hawaii, and Costa Rica.
Pictures my traveling companion took from our post-college summer trips to Argentina and Uruguay, and Turkey (my own coming one of these days)

Publications available on the web:

Knutson, B., Taylor, J., Kaufman, M., Peterson, R., & Glover, G. (2005). Distributed neural representation of expected value. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 4806-4812.

Choi, D., Kaufman, M., Langley, P., Nejati, N., & Shapiro, D. (2004). An architecture for persistent reactive behavior. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems. New York: ACM Press.

matt235 AT stanford DOT edu