Matthew Finlayson
Doctoral Student at University of Southern California
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Finlayson is a computational linguistics researcher and doctoral student at USC with seven years of experience bridging academic research and industry R&D. He has held roles at AI2 as a pre-doctoral investigator, interned at Meta and Microsoft on language-focused teams, and taught core CS and NLP courses at Harvard. His work emphasizes practical language understanding informed by rigorous theory—evidenced by visiting research at the Simons Institute and internships that translate models into real product contexts. Based in Seattle, he combines deep linguistic grounding from a Harvard CS & Linguistics background with hands-on engineering experience building NLP systems. An understated strength is his ability to move between teaching, publishing research, and shipping prototypes, making him effective at turning theoretical insights into usable technology.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelors, Computer Science and Linguistics, Bachelors, Computer Science and Linguistics at Harvard University
Github Skills (52)
transformers10
pytorch10
trading-algorithms10
python10
machine-learning-models10
trading10
machine-learning10
inference10
multimodal10
llm10
cryptocurrency10
audio10
stock-trading10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mattf1n/mattf1n.github.io
Oct 2018 - Mar 2026
Contributions:314 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 7 years 6 months
mattf1n/grad
Nov 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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