(profiled in 2018) Matt Brown ‘19 is a rising senior with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Cognitive Science. This summer, he interned at IBM in San Jose, CA, as a Data Scientist intern. He has been working on front-end development using React, as well as computational facial recognition models using neural networks. Matt was a part of an intern hackathon team that developed an IBM-Watson powered HR application; his team won the entire hackathon out of over 400 participants (congratulations, Matt!). Matt says that “my cognitive science knowledge has helped me identify potential biases in the algorithms that I’m developing and using and think critically about the ethical implications of these high-tech algorithms.” He is interested in how technology has affected our cognition, specifically our attention. “Last academic year, I worked as an RA in Dr. Arrington’s lab, which studies how task-switching affects cognitive control and attention. In the future, I want to work as a software engineer or data scientist; I’m confident that my Cognitive Science background will help me to consider the behavioral and ethical issues of the code that I write.”