Matthew Franco

Matthew Franco is a Clinical Research Volunteer with the PREDiCTOR Study and a collaborator with the MIND Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he helps manage day-to-day operations. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from New York University, where he received the department’s outstanding thesis award for research on how motivation shapes political decision-making and is currently completing postbaccalaureate coursework at Columbia University. His research interests sit at the intersection of psychology, psychiatry, and data science, with a focus on how AI and computational tools can accelerate discovery and how policy can expand access to high-quality psychiatric care.

Outside the lab, Matthew can be found organizing events with Columbia’s Postbac Premed Student Council, vibe coding an app of some sort, or watching reruns of How I Met Your Mother. He can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected].