Matthew Russell, PhD
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SeniorMatthew Russell is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in scientific computing and real-time brain-computer interfaces. He holds a PhD from Tufts where he built prototype BCIs using fNIRS and mobile EEG, produced reproducible analysis pipelines, and achieved 71% LOO-CV macro F1 with real-time classifiers. His work spans academia and industry—collaborating with Microsoft Research on LLM-neurophysiology studies and now engineering scientific software at Acceleron Fusion. Matthew is an effective mentor and educator who has guided over 100 research assistants, taught data structures at scale, and built a GitOps CI/CD autograder framework used by thousands of students. A former Zen monk, he brings disciplined attention to detail, team leadership, and an unusual blend of contemplative practice with rigorous experimental engineering.
9 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,107reputation
372kreached
33answers
3questions
flask
top-5%
Github Skills (70)
editor10
electron10
typescript10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
flask9
google-sheet9
vscode-extension9
unit-test9
google-sheets-api8
google-sheets8
vscode8
git-filter-branch7
google-sheets-api-v47
gspread7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mattrussell2/website
Feb 2023 - Jun 2025
Contributions:160 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
mattrussell2/backgammon
May 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 9 months
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