Adeel Razi

Adeel Razi is Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, at the Monash University, Australia. He is an engineer turned neuroscientist who uses both mathematical and experimental methods for his investigations. He leads a highly cross-disciplinary laboratory doing research combining engineering, physics, and machine-learning approaches to answer questions that are motivated by and grounded in neurobiology. This endeavour enabled him to go beyond the traditional boundaries in order to understand how the brain works. His research has implications for building new neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence systems, treatment of brain diseases and development of new neuro-technologies. His work has been published in journals such as Nature, Nature Mental Health, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Neuron, Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has been featured in BBC, CNN, The Economist, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and The Age. He joined Monash after finishing his postdoctoral studies (2012-2018) at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL, UK. He received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering (with a Gold Medal) from the N.E.D. University of Engineering & Technology in Pakistan, the M.Sc. degree in Communications Engineering from the University of Technology Aachen (RWTH), Germany, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2012.