Matt Shaffer
AI Research Scientist Fellow at RIOS Intelligent Machines
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Shaffer is an AI research scientist and founder with a decade of experience turning cutting-edge research into deployed robotics products and scalable machine learning systems. Based in San Francisco, he co-founded and led AI at RIOS Intelligent Machines, pioneering Robots-as-a-Service and building multi-task industrial robot stacks that integrate high-dimensional sensors, perception, planning, and control for production environments. He has hands-on experience across the ML lifecycle—from data collection and labeling pipelines to model architecture and on-device/cluster compute design—and has raised capital through post-Series B. Trained at UC Berkeley in Information and Data Science and with roots in geography and early entrepreneurial web and IoT projects, he blends rigorous data-driven methods with practical productization. An operator who still codes, Matt’s uncommon combination of research leadership, fundraising experience, and end-to-end deployment know-how accelerates the transition from lab demos to reliable automation.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Information and Data Science, Master’s Degree Information and Data Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Geography, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Geography at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (108)
linux9
chromium9
browser9
firefox9
golem9
python9
windows9
deep-learning9
brave-browser9
brave9
tensorflow9
macos9
simulate8
ros-control8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
planetceres/GON
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
Gradient Origin Networks - a new type of implicit generative model that is able to quickly learn a latent representation without an explicit encoder
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pytorchrepresentationimplicitdeep-learningtype-of
planetceres/Exercises
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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