Ryan V. Raut, PhD

Ryan Raut, PhD, is an instructor in the Neuroimaging Labs Research Center for Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He leads computational research into the dynamic nature of brain function. His work focuses on identifying the internal processes, constraints and governing principles that enable the continuous and remarkably integrated functioning of living brains and organisms. Raut seeks to uncover these internal sources of order from high-dimensional physiological and behavioral datasets, and in turn, to leverage this inherent structure to develop interpretable, low-dimensional models of complex data that preserve the core principles at play.

Raut works with experimental collaborators to constrain and integrate these dynamical models with wide-ranging empirical data spanning modalities, spatiotemporal scales and species—such as functional neuroimaging in humans and high-density, cellular-resolution optical and electrophysiological recordings in mice—ultimately aiming for holistic and robust representations of brain function that remain tractable.

Previously, Raut was a Shanahan Foundation Fellow at the Allen Institute and University of Washington, Seattle, where he pursued multidisciplinary training in dynamical systems theory, machine learning and neural data analysis. He completed his doctorate in neuroscience with Marcus Raichle, PhD, at Washington University in St. Louis.