Matt Scott is the CEO and co-founder of Malong Technologies, a VC-backed, award-winning computer vision company. Malong produces leading product recognition technologies for the retail industry. Established in 2014, Malong now has 150+ employees, is an Accenture portfolio company and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Malong was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and a Gartner Cool Vendor for AI in Computer Vision.
Matt started Malong’s Research group. The group actively publishes state-of-the-art research, open source, collaborates with university and commercial research organizations, sponsors conferences, has a postdoc program, and launches open datasets and competitions to help advance computer vision research in the scientific community.
Matt has 15+ years R&D experience in computer vision and machine learning. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (SMIEEE), has published 100+ international patents and 25+ academic papers, including coverfeatured articles in IEEE Computer and The Proceedings of the IEEE. In IEEE CVPR’17, Matt and his team won first place in the WebVision Challenge.
Prior to Malong, Matt was at Microsoft for 10 years, working in Microsoft Research as an R&D lead on computer vision, machine learning, and NLP. At Microsoft, he received the Gold Star Award, Engineering Excellence Award, Microsoft Research Asia Collaborator of the Year, and 18 Research to Product Technical Transfer Awards. In 2018, Matt won Fast Company’s MCP100 award. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New York Times, and The Discovery Channel, among other outlets.