Matthew Clegg
Director, Smart Learning Hub at UC San Diego
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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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.
14 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 (9)
multi-party-computation9
evaluation-framework6
code-optimization4
jvm4
julia3
react3
optimization2
cryptocurrency2
exchange2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matthewclegg/egcm
Mar 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 10 pushes in 2 years 1 month
cran/egcm
Jan 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 commits in 3 years 8 months
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