Daniel Messinger, PhD

Daniel Messinger, PhD, is a professor and director of the Child Division in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, where he has secondary appointments in Pediatrics and in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the director of the Social Systems Informatics Program at the Institute for Data Science and Computing and Research Director of the Linda Ray Intervention Center.

Dr. Messinger employs computational approaches to big behavioral data to understand social, language, and emotional development. His research focuses on social and communicative development in typically developing children, children with hearing loss, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and children whose communicative development is affected by prenatal drug exposure and poverty. This research has been continuously funded by the federal government and private foundations for 25 years. It has resulted in both multi-investigator research collaborations and single investigator efforts that have yielded high-impact publications (Google h-index = 60). Dr. Messinger is the author of over 125 scientific publications appearing in high-profile journals such as Science Reports, Developmental Science, and Molecular Autism. Dr. Messinger is an editor in chief of Developmental Science and serves on the editorial board of Infancy.