Matthew Clegg
Director, Smart Learning Hub at AIdea Catalyst
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Clegg is a technical leader and serial founder with 13+ years of software engineering and research experience, now directing UC San Diego’s Smart Learning Hub to fuse large language models with learning science. He holds a PhD in computer science and has driven revenue-impacting backend systems, privacy-preserving adtech, and novel algorithms during senior roles at Google and as a staff quantitative researcher. Matthew founded multiple startups—from pioneering online multiplayer gaming to quantitative finance tools and the AIdea Catalyst product for entrepreneurs—demonstrating a rare mix of product instincts and deep quantitative rigor. His strengths span distributed systems, differential privacy, mathematical modeling, and machine learning, and he has produced practical libraries and research in quantitative finance and time-series econometrics. Comfortable in both research and production, he’s seeking a technical leadership role at an early-stage startup where his combination of academe, product-building, and privacy-first engineering will accelerate impact.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Mathematics, MS, Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, San DiegoMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
Github Skills (8)
evaluation7
evaluation-framework5
code-optimization4
exchange3
optimization3
julia3
react3
cryptocurrency2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cran/egcm
Jan 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 commits in 3 years 8 months
matthewclegg/partialAR
Jan 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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