Matthew Belmonte
belmonte@mit.edu

This is the web-only, general-audience version of my c.v. If you want my academic c.v., please send me email to request it.


SCIENCE AND
COMPUTING
TEACHING OTHER WORK
EXPERIENCE

PUBLICATIONS INVITED LECTURES


SKILLS · Applications programming (C, C++, LISP, 6809 and 80286 assembly languages, &c.)
· Solaris and IRIX system administration (Sun SA-380 certification)
· Biomedical signal processing and image processing
· Statistical programming and data modelling
· Technical writing
· Teacher of high school, university, and professional seminars
· Certified mediator in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 
EXPERIENCE
 
Cornell University Department of Human Development August 2006 - June 2010
Teaching and research on the neurobiology of autism.
 
University of Cambridge Autism Research Centre July 2002 - August 2006
Conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of perceptual and executive systems in autism. Devised and implement advanced nonparametric statistical analyses for functional magnetic resonance image time series.
 
McLean Hospital Brain Imaging Center,
Belmont, Massachusetts
September 1998 - June 2002
Conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of attention in autism. Designed and implemented software for automated tissue segmentation in magnetic resonance images and for optimised permutation testing of image time series. Developed PC software and hardware interfaces for real-time stimulus control and data acquisition.
 
Tuneprint, Inc.,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
June 2001 - January 2002
Constructed computational models of the human auditory system for use in audio ‘fingerprinting’ software.
 
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
New York University Center for Neural Science
February 1997 - July 1998
Developed and maintained software for visual stimulus presentation, real-time data acquisition, and biological signal processing.
 
Interactive Futures, Inc., New York October 1996 - February 1997
Installed, maintained, and troubleshot Sun and SGI servers for several Silicon Alley clients, and instructed client personnel in systems administration tasks
 
Autism and Brain Development Research Laboratory,
Children's Hospital, San Diego
June 1992 - April 1996
Developed software for automated quantification and interactive visualisation of nuclear magnetic resonance images and electroencephalographic signals. Set up and administered a network of IRIX, Solaris, Windows, and MacOS systems.
 
Computing Centre, Imperial College, London fall 1990
Operator of several batch computing systems.
 
Synthesizer Generator Research Project,
Computer Science Department, Cornell University
January 1987 - June 1989
Implemented static semantic rules for an incremental compiler for the C language. Devised and implemented algorithms for evaluating dependencies within attribute grammars.
 
Robotics Research Project, Computer Science Department, Cornell University September - December 1986
Developed user interfaces for solid modelling tools on Symbolics LISP machines.
 
National Biomedical Simulation Resource,
Duke University
June - August 1986
Maintained data communications hardware and UNIX system software.
 
Navy Center for Applied Research in
Artificial Intelligence
, Washington, D.C.
January - June 1986
Developed and optimised a transition network parser implemented in LISP as part of a natural language understanding effort.
 
National Political Resources, Inc.,
Alexandria, Virginia
October 1984 - February 1985
Wrote job-control scripts and C programs in a VAX/VMS environment to interact with telephone operators.
 
EDUCATION Highlights: BA in English and computer science, MFA in fiction writing. Full details here.
 
MEMBERSHIPS Scientific Review Council, Cure Autism Now foundation September 2000 - December 2006
MIT Student Information Processing Board February 1999 till date
International Society for Autism Research 2004 till date