Reza Shadmehr (Persian: رضا شادمهر; born 1963) is an Iranian-American professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

He was subsequently mentored in robotics at the University of Southern California by Michael A. Arbib, where he was an IBM Graduate Fellow, completing a PhD in 1991.

[6] Shadmehr studies the problem of how the brain controls movements of the arm and the eyes, using a broad set of approaches, including computational, behavioral, and neurophysiological techniques, in both humans and monkeys.

[7] The “force field” paradigm allows one to investigate how the brain learns internal models that help control the physics of our body and the objects that we interact with.

[9] The discovery of this population coding has made it possible to understand the language used by neurons of the cerebellum to build internal models that relate actions to their consequences.