Dr. Hutman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA in the Center for Autism Research and Treatment (also known as CART). He is also a clinical and developmental psychologist, specializing in autism spectrum disorder, as well as social-emotional and social-cognitive development. Dr. Hutman received a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Modern Thought & Literature from Stanford University. He completed doctoral and post-doctoral training with Dr. Marian Sigman at the UCLA Department of Psychology. Currently, he is an investigator on the longitudinal study of infant siblings of children with autism, a primary project of the NIH-funded Autism Center of Excellence at CART. This research integrates behavioral, eye-tracking, electrophysiological, neuroimaging, and genetic methodologies to identify brain-based markers of autism during infancy, to improve efforts to screen infants for autism, and to develop targeted treatments.
Dr. Hutman has a career development award from the National Institute of Mental Health. His research has also been supported by the Friends of the Semel Institute, the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the FPR/UCLA Center for Culture, Brain & Development, the UCLA Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Center, and the Mattel Children’s Foundation.