About me

Matthew is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer working at Prima Assicurazioni in the UK pricing team, where he was responsible for designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining the ML models and systems used to provide car insurance quotes for the UK market.

Previously, Matthew worked at Faculty AI as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, where he worked on implementing and deploying Machine Learning applications for various government departments; he worked at Improbable Defence as a Senior Model Engineer, where he worked on developing and deploying Agent-Based models for Defence and National Security applications; he worked as a Machine Learning Engineering Team Lead at Secondmind, where he led a multidisciplinary team working on modelling and decision-making products, primarily aimed towards logistics companies.

Matthew completed his education at the University of York, first completing a master’s degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, and later joining the Intelligent Games and Games Intelligence (IGGI) Doctoral Training Centre, where his research focussed on trying to make the algorithm Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) more suitable for use in the games industry. While in postgraduate studies at York, Matthew was heavily involved in teaching both AI courses and programming courses to undergraduate students, and collaborated with staff in the Electronics and Biology departments in applying computer vision and genetic programming to drug development research.