Matt Williams is a Principal Engineer at Cookpad, the world's largest recipe sharing platform, where he specialises in search and discovery. He has over six years of experience in building discovery experiences, with a particular interest in NLP, ML, scaleable search and recommendation, and the team structures and processes that underpin effective relevance improvement.

Prior to joining Cookpad in 2019, Matt worked as a Data Scientist and ML Engineer in industry, with applications to social media analysis and real-time news analysis. Before entering the software industry, Matt was a research scientist in academia, focusing on network science and predictive user modelling. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cardiff University, where he was also a lecturer.