Matthew Dixon is an AI consultant and applied mathematician with 12 years of professional experience and a 20-year background in predictive modeling, blending academic rigor with startup and enterprise delivery. He has held tenured and faculty roles directing fintech and analytics programs while founding and scaling a Series A Web3 payments startup that integrated a Solana-based settlement network across 90,000+ US retail locations. His work spans quantitative risk at major financial institutions, high-performance simulation on GPUs, and practical machine learning applications funded by Intel, Dell, NASA JPL and NSF. Comfortable moving models from research to production, he has built C++ and C# risk systems, Monte Carlo engines, and blockchain-enabled payments infrastructure. Based in Los Angeles, he combines deep mathematical training (PhD, Imperial College; postdoc, Stanford) with entrepreneurial grit and a rare ability to evaluate qualitative data and visualize predictive signals for real-world decision-making. An award-winning expert, he uniquely bridges defense- and finance-grade simulation methods with commercial AI solutions.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Applied Mathematics, PhD Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London
MSc Parallel and Scientific Computing, MSc Parallel and Scientific Computing at University of Reading
Postdoctorate Computational Math & Engineering, Postdoctorate Computational Math & Engineering at Stanford University
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