Glenn Matlin
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Curriculum Vitae

Glenn Matlin

Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Georgia Tech studying machine learning, language models, interpretability, and evaluation in high-stakes domains.

Affiliation

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Computer Science

Current Role

Ph.D. Candidate advised by Mark Riedl and co-advised by Sudheer Chava

Research Focus

Machine learning, language models, social reasoning, evaluation, and interpretability

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Education Publications Awards Research Teaching Service Industry Contact

Education

May 2023 – Present

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Computer Science

Ph.D. Candidate (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

Advised by Professor Mark Riedl, Director of the Machine Learning Center and Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Lab, and co-advised by Professor Sudheer Chava, Alton M. Costley Chair Professor of Finance in the Financial Services Innovation Lab.

Aug 2021 – May 2023

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Computer Science

M.S. Computer Science (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

Coursework: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Deep Learning with Text, Design of Algorithms and Data Structures, Systems for Machine Learning, and Efficient Computing.

2011

University of Central Florida, College of Business

B.A. Economics

Coursework: Statistical Analysis, Quantitative Business Analysis, Research Methodology, Decision Sciences, Applied Game Theory, Industrial Organization, and Finance Systems.

Selected Publications

A curated slice of the most recent papers. For the complete archive and project pages, continue to the publications page.

Feb 2026

Trust by Design: Skill Profiles for Transparent, Cost-Aware LLM Routing

Okamoto M., Erol A.K., Matlin G. MLSys 2025 Young Professionals Symposium. arXiv:2602.02386

Jan 2026

FinForge: Semi-Synthetic Financial Benchmark Generation

Matlin G., Theerthala A., Gupta A., Anirudh JM, Castilla R., Ng Y.M., Chava S. Workshop on Agentic AI in Financial Services at the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2026. arXiv:2601.06747

Dec 2025

Financial Instruction Following Evaluation (FIFE)

Matlin G., Siddharth, Anirudh JM, Shukla A., Hassan Y., Chava S. GenAI Finance Workshop at the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025. arXiv:2512.08965

Sep 2025

Shall We Play a Game? Language Models for Open-ended Wargames

Matlin G., Mahajan P., Song I., Hao Y., Bard R., Topp S., Montoya E., Parwani M.R., Shetty S., Riedl M. Wordplay: When Language Meets Games Workshop at the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025. arXiv:2509.17192

Aug 2025

Do Language Models Agree with Human Perceptions of Suspense in Stories?

Matlin G., Zhang D., Loza R., Popescu D.M., Isbell J., Chakraborty C., Riedl M. 2nd Conference on Language Models (COLM) 2025 (Top 3% paper; 28% acceptance rate). arXiv:2508.15794

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Honors & Awards

2026

MATS Research Fellowship ($30,000)

Machine Alignment, Transparency, and Security (MATS) Program

2026

Social Training Data Attribution ($10,000 compute credits)

Modal Labs, Modal for Academics

2026

Financial Economics Reasoning Reinforcement ($5,000 compute credits)

Thinking Machines Lab, Tinker Research Grant

2025

clAIrvoyant, AI+ Expo Hackathon 2025 ($15,000 prize money)

OpenAI, Special Competitive Studies Project

2025

Accelerate — 3,000,000 ACCESS Credits (~$100,000 compute credits)

National Science Foundation (NSF), Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS)

2025

Financial Language Model Evaluation / FLaME ($6,000 compute credits)

Together AI, Research Credits Program

2024

MAGIC — Machine Assisted Global Intelligence Collection ($300,000 funding)

Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)

2024

FiduciAIry — Mitigating Hallucinations in Financial Question Answering ($100,000 compute credits)

Georgia Institute of Technology, Institute of Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), Cyberinfrastructure Resources CFP

2023

FinGT — Financial Generative Transformers (~$150,000 compute credits)

Georgia Institute of Technology, Institute of Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), Cyberinfrastructure Resources CFP

600,000 CPU hours on AMD Genoa servers, 36,000 hours of NVIDIA DGX H-100 GPU server usage, and 172 TB of secure storage.

2023

1st Prize, Ph.D. Research and Poster Competition

School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

2009 – 2011

Dean’s List Scholar (4 Semesters)

University of Central Florida

2006

Florida Academic Scholarship (20% acceptance rate)

Recognizes exceptional academic achievement with a 100% tuition award, earned through strong GPA, SAT scores, and 100+ service hours.

Research Experience

Mar 2026 – Present

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI)

Research Mentor

Jan 2026 – Present

Machine Alignment, Transparency, and Security (MATS) Program

Research Assistant

Jul 2023 – Present

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Lab

Research Assistant

May 2023 – Present

Financial Services Innovation Lab

Research Assistant

May 2023 – Sep 2023

Lemurian Labs

Research Intern

Jun 2022 – Aug 2022

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Research Intern

Jan 2022 – May 2023

Systems for Artificial Intelligence Lab

Research Assistant

Teaching + Invited Talks

Teaching

Spring 2026

CS 7634 — Artificial Intelligence Storytelling in Virtual Worlds

Fall 2025

MGMT 8803 — Machine Learning for Finance

Fall 2024

MGMT 8803 — Artificial Intelligence for Finance

Fall 2023 – Spring 2024

CS 7641 — Machine Learning

Spring 2023 – Summer 2023

CS 6515 — Graduate Algorithms & Data Structures

Fall 2022

CS 8803 — Systems for Machine Learning

Invited Talks

Fall 2025

Graph-Based Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG)

2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Finance

Spring 2025

Financial Language Model Evaluation (FLaME)

ML@GT Student Conference 2025

Spring 2024

Efficient Adaptation of Large Language Models for Domain-Specific Tasks

1st Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Finance

Fall 2023

Theoretical Foundations of Natural Language Processing

CS 7641 — Machine Learning, Georgia Tech

Summer 2022

Advanced Techniques for Deep Learning with Electronic Health Records

Clinical and Patient Analytics, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Fall 2021

Deep Learning with Electronic Health Records

CS 8803 — Systems for Machine Learning, Georgia Tech

Service & Leadership

Jan 2026 – Present

AI Safety Initiative (AISI)

Fellowship Facilitator

Aug 2025 – Dec 2025

AI Safety Initiative (AISI)

Fellow

Prior Industry Experience

Industry roles remain part of the story, but they support the current academic trajectory rather than lead it.

Nov 2020 – Jul 2021

Komodo Health — San Francisco, CA

Senior Data Scientist, Machine Learning

  • Developed machine learning systems using clinical data to detect rare and undiagnosed diseases.
  • Managed a team of ML engineers focused on algorithm development, including junior mentorship.

Jan 2019 – May 2020

Change Healthcare — Emeryville, CA

Senior Data Scientist, Artificial Intelligence

  • Led end-to-end development of a deep-learning medical bill auditing system for scanning and analyzing more than 100 million pages of clinical records.
  • Built production NLP systems that automated insurance claim auditing and generated significant cost savings.

Jan 2017 – Oct 2018

LendUp — San Francisco, CA

Data Scientist

  • Owned the full development lifecycle of underwriting models using XGBoost, logistic regression, and Hyperopt.
  • Developed new customer micro-targeting strategies that drove $1.5M in revenue.

May 2015 – Dec 2016

RichRelevance — San Francisco, CA

Senior Data Analyst

  • Led data analysis and performance reporting for major e-commerce clients while supporting ML recommendation deployments.
  • Analyzed petabytes of Hadoop logs to build client-facing statistical reports showing lift from recommendation systems.

Mar 2014 – Apr 2015

John Tyler Community College — Richmond, VA

Research Analyst

  • Guided college administration with demographic analysis for new program design and institutional planning.
  • Forecasted long-term demographic and economic trends for strategic planning.

Aug 2012 – Aug 2013

Southeastern Institute of Research — Richmond, VA

Research Analyst

  • Coordinated quantitative research and consulting with the Commonwealth of Virginia and Fortune 500 companies.
  • Audited IT waste and migrated systems to Amazon Web Services, reducing annual costs by $75K.

Jan 2011 – Dec 2011

Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk — Georgia State University

Research Analyst

  • Conducted quantitative behavioral research on traffic patterns for the Federal Highway Administration.
  • Analyzed experimental data from virtual-reality simulations and GPS sensors for vehicles.

2002 – 2005

Self-Employed

IT Systems Consultant

  • Started a personal business building IT solutions for local businesses after graduating high school at 15.
  • Implemented remote virtual-desktop and paperless-office systems to improve mobility and reduce overhead.

Skills + Contact

Software Engineering

Python, Rust, Go, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Pandas, SciPy, NumPy, shell scripting, unit and integration testing, and CI/CD.

AI + NLP

Large language models, GPT, BERT, Hugging Face, spaCy, Gensim, NLTK, deep learning, generative AI, embeddings, clustering, and statistical modeling.

Systems + Infrastructure

Amazon, Google, and Azure cloud services; Spark, Kubernetes, Ray, Modin, Dask, MLFlow, Airflow, and distributed computing.

Analysis + Visualization

SQL and NoSQL, Excel, R, SAS, Tableau, SPSS, D3.js, Jupyter, Matplotlib, Plotly, and Seaborn.

Contact

The web CV is a fast public-facing summary. Use the PDF for the full formal record, or reach out directly below.

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