Matthew Burtell completed a think tank fellowship at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Foundational Research Grants program.
He graduated from Yale University in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics. As an undergraduate student, he worked as a Machine Learning research assistant in a Natural Language Processing lab and also contributed to deep learning scaling law research. Before college, Matt served four years in the Navy for the opportunity to pursue growth and service. In the Navy, Matt administered computer networks on an aircraft carrier.