Ryan Morehead Email & Phone Number

Concord, MA, US

Lexington, Massachusetts, United States

United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Designed and supervised execution of more than 30 research projects (web-based mouse and keyboard experiments, virtual reality, EEG interfaces, EMG interfaces, hardware fabrication, qualitative methods)
• Secured research grant funding and managed research budgets (£350k+)
• Oversaw custom software development, data analysis, Bayesian statistical analysis and machine learning models in Python, R, and MATLAB
• Used open science tools (Jupyter, R Markdown, Matplotlib, GitHub/OSF repositories for code and data)
• Advisor of 10 PhDs & postdocs from recruitment through to next career stage
• Taught the undergraduate courses ‘Perception, Action & Cognition’ and ‘The Spatial World

Maurice Smith's Neuromotor Control Laboratory

• Refined state-of-the-art behavioral methods to measure implicit and explicit skill learning relative to predictions of neural network models
• Simulated sensorimotor adaptation with unsupervised and supervised machine learning models
• Wrote custom Python and Matlab experiment software (Windows and Apple PCs, Android tablet devices)
• Hardware fabrication and calibration to measure movement kinematics (3D printing, extruded aluminum, various displays and motion tracking devices)
• Oral presentations of research at competitive peer-reviewed international conferences
• Mentored 12 PhD students and junior postdocs

• Invented novel method to measure implicit visuomotor adaptation that is now a widely adopted standard in the motor learning field
• Demonstrated that faster relearning of visuomotor skills is primarily facilitated by recall of explicit cognitive decisions (now the broadly accepted interpretation)
• Extensive training in behavioral and kinematic data collection, fMRI methods, clinical exams for neurological patients
• Developed custom Python (Pygame, Psychopy) minigame software for experiments with automated network data transmission via cloud services (Dropbox, AWS)
• Machine learning and Markov-chain model simulations and model fitting for sensorimotor control and motor skill learning
• Data visualization and analysis with frequentist statistics in MATLAB

Modified custom software for visuomotor control and decision-making experiments with computer mouse and Nintendo Wiimote hand tracking. Maintained lab ethics protocols and participant payment budgets.

Performed experiments for humans and rhesus macaques with cortically implanted brain-computer interfaces. Developed custom implementation of eye tracking within a three dimensional virtual environment.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Cognitive Neuroscience

Ba, Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience)