Adeel Razi, PhD

Professor
School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University Australia

Adeel Razi is a Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University Australia, and affiliated with the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and Monash Data Futures Institute. He leads a highly cross-disciplinary laboratory performing research combining engineering, physics, and machine-learning approaches to answer questions that are motivated by and grounded in neurobiology. He develops statistical methods for analysing neuroimaging time series data with a special focus on state-space modelling, Bayesian statistics, and dynamical systems theory. He has made fundamental contributions to the development and application of Dynamic Causal Modelling, especially for resting-state functional MRI, which is a framework for in-vivo investigating of the function of the human brain. 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 Human Behaviour, Nature Mental Health, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Neuron, Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has been featured in The Guardians, BBC, CNN, The Age, The Australian etc. 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 University 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.