Matt Spike

the life logistic

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Bio

• Cognitive scientist and linguist with…
  • a strong interdisciplinary background
  • expertise in the social and cognitive sciences
  • cutting-edge skills in AI, data science, modelling & ML
• Harnessing the latest breakthroughs in…
  • computation
  • theory
  • empirical research methods
• Devising and implementing innovative solutions across…
  • language
  • cognition
  • culture
• Bringing a diverse and broad experience spanning…
  • multiple international research collaborations
  • thousands of teaching contact-hours
  • effective communication to general & specialist audiences
  • a demonstrated ability to thrive under pressure
  • planning, coordinating, and delivering organisational & technical solutions.

Skills & Expertise

Soft skills

• Communication & Leadership:
  • articulating complex ideas
  • managing teams
  • mentoring peers
• Collaboration & Mentorship:
  • Fostering growth
  • Team development
  • interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Project Management:
  • Overseeing projects
  • Management from conception to completion
  • high-prestige publications and presentations

Tech Skills

• Data Analysis & Modelling:
  • Python (pandas, NumPy, pyro, PyMC3, SciPy, statsmodels)
  • R (tidyverse, dplyr, rjags, rstan, base, lme4, glmer, brms)
• ML & NLP:
  • Python (scikit-learn, PyTorch, NLTK, spaCy)
  • R (caret, randomForest, tm)
• Data Visualization & Web UX Design:
  • R (ggplot2, Shiny)
  • Python (Seaborn, Plotly, bokeh, D3js,Flask, PsychoPy, & oTree)
  • JavaScript (jsPsych, Node.js, React)
  • HTML, XML, CSS, SVG
• Multilingual:
  • English
  • Turkish
  • Spanish
  • French.

Additional

• UK, USA, & Irish nationality
• Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (2006)

Research Outputs

• The evolution of eavesdropping on heterospecific alarm calls: Relevance, reliability, and personal information
  CR Turner, M Spike, RD Magrath
  link | pdf | Ecology and Evolution 13 (7), e10272, 2023

• Joint evolution of traits for social learning
  CR Turner, SF Mann, M Spike, RD Magrath, K Sterelny
  link | pdf | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77 (47), 2023

• A Colorful Formalization of the Typological Prevalence Hypothesis
  J Torgue, F Mollica, M Spike
  link | pdf | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 45 (45), 2023

• Cognition and the stability of evolving complex morphology: an agent-based model
  E Round, S Beniamine, L Esher, M Spike
  link | pdf | EvoLang, 2022

• Why is scaling up models of language evolution hard?
  MS Woensdregt, M Spike, R de Haan, T Wareham, I van Rooij, …
  link | pdf | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 43 (43) 4, 2021

• Fifty shades of grue: Indeterminate categories and induction in and out of the language sciences
  M Spike
  link | pdf | Linguistic Typology 24 (3), 465-488 17, 2020

• CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database
  SG Roberts, A Killin, A Deb, C Sheard, SJ Greenhill, K Sinnemäki, …
  link | pdf | Journal of Language Evolution 5 (2), 101-120 26, 2020

• THE CO-EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION AND COOPERATION: LEWIS SIGNALLING GAMES IN SOCIAL DILEMMA SCENARIOS
  M CROSS, AMY LUMSDEN, M SPIKE
  link | pdf | EvoLang, 2020

• The effects of interaction on establishing common ground in communication
  E HUGGETT, PPE NA, J SULIK, M SPIKE
  link | pdf | EvoLang, 2020

• Language complexity as an interaction between social structure, innovation, and simplicity
  M Spike
  link | pdf | EvoLang, 2018

• The evolution of linguistic rules
  M Spike
  link | pdf | Philosophy and Biology, 2018

• Minimal requirements for the cultural evolution of language
  MJ Spike
  link | pdf | The University of Edinburgh, 2017

• Population size, learning, and innovation determine linguistic complexity.
  M Spike
  link | pdf | CogSci, 2017

• Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling
  M Spike, K Stadler, S Kirby, K Smith
  link | pdf | Cognitive Science, 2016

• Minimal pressures leading to duality of patterning
  M Spike, K Smith, S Kirby
  link | pdf | EvoLang, 2016

• Word Learners Regularize Synonyms And Homonyms Similarly
  V Ferdinand, M Spike
  link | pdf | EvoLang, 2016

• Learning, Feedback and Information in Self-Organizing Communication Systems
  M Spike, K Stadler, S Kirby, K Smith
  link | pdf | Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

• Modelling the Evolution of Communication Systems
  MJ Spike
  link | pdf | The University of Edinburgh, 2012