Adeel Razi – Bio-sketch

Brief Biography

Adeel Razi is an Associate Professor at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, and Monash Data Futures Institute at the Monash University, Australia. He is a computational 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. 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 Neuron, Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has been featured in BBC, CNN, The Economist, The Guardians, 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.

Current Appointements

• Jul 2020 - present: Associate Professor and NHMRC Investigator (Emerging Leadership Fellow)
  Oct 2018 - present: Deputy Program Lead – Brain Mapping and Modelling
  Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health
  School of Psychological Sciences
  Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  

• Jan 2018 - present: Honorary Senior Research Fellow
  Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
  University College London, United Kindom
  

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow (Neuroimaging, 2012-2018), University College London, U.K. Supervisors: Karl Friston and Geraint Rees

• Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering, 2012), UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Supervisors: Jinhong Yuan, Iain Collings, and Daniel Ryan

• M.Sc. (Communications Engineering, 2006), RWTH Aachen, Germany. Supervisors, RWTH: Gerd Ascheid, Meik Dorpinghaus, Intel: Michael Speth and Herbert Dawid

• B.E. (Electrical Engineering, 2002, University Medal), N.E.D. UET, Karachi, Pakistan

External Funding

• National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grant “Neural computers: Towards synthetic biological intelligence” Adeel Razi, Chris French, and Brett Kagan, Dec 2023 – Dec 2026.

• CIFAR - Jacobs Foundation joint seed funding for a series of workshops on “Longitudinal Data Analysis across Disciplines”. Nov 2021 - Oct 2023. With PI: Kou Murayama, Julia Moeller, Baobao Zhang, Catherine Lebel and Drew Bailey.

• CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar - Brain, Mind & Conscisouness Program, 2021-2024.

• NHMRC Investigator Fellowship (Emerging Leader), Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2025.

• ARC Discovery Project “Multiscale and multimodal modelling of brain dynamics” Adeel Razi, Andrew Zalesky and Karl Friston, Oct. 2020 – Oct. 2023.

• ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA), Jan. 2018 – Dec. 2020.

Past Appointments

• Jan 2018 - Jun 2020: Senior Research Fellow and ARC DECRA Fellow
  Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health
  School of Psychological Sciences
  Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  

• Oct 2017 - Dec 2017: Senior Research Fellow
  Oct 2012 - Sep 2017: Research Fellow
  Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
  University College London, United Kindom
  

• Apr 2011 - Oct 2011: Staff Scientist
  Broadcom Inc.
  Sydney, Australia
  

• Jul 2012 - Dec 2017: Associate Professor (mostly on leave for higher studies)
  May 2006 - Jun 2012: Assistant Professor (mostly on leave for higer studies)
  Apr 2002 - Apr 2006: Lecturer (mostly on leave for higher studies)
  Electronic Engineering Department
  NED University of Engg. & Tech., Karachi, Paksitan