Matthew T. Dunn

I’m Matthew Dunn, serving as Head of AI at Resurface Therapeutics on an interim basis. The company is developing lipid nanoparticle-based medicines; as an investor, I’m helping build its AI and scientific computing foundations while it gets established, including protein language models for LNP design and optimization and AI-assisted research platforms.

Previously, I co-founded and led Daedaline, served as Research Director and Member of the Technical Staff at Cohere, and built and led LivePerson’s applied AI team.

Earlier at NYU, I worked on question answering and language modeling, ported gated recurrent unit (GRU) code from Theano to PyTorch, and used one of the first DGX-1 clusters deployed there—well before today’s LLM boom.

Experience

Head of AI · Resurface TherapeuticsJuly 2026 – Present

In an interim capacity, help establish the company’s AI and scientific computing capabilities, developing protein language models for LNP design and optimization and AI-assisted platforms for literature analysis and scientific diligence.

Co-Founder & CEO · DaedalineOctober 2023 – July 2026

Raised $2M in seed financing, built the founding team, and developed a production AI platform for real-asset due diligence, including retrieval, distributed inference, and agentic query routing.

Research Director / Member of the Technical Staff · CohereJuly 2022 – October 2023

Set annotation and forward-deployed engineering strategy and prototyped model adaptation methods for production language model applications.

VP of Applied Machine Learning · LivePersonSeptember 2021 – April 2022

Led a 20-person applied research team and company-wide deployment of deep learning across conversational AI products.

Director of Applied Machine Learning · LivePersonSeptember 2018 – September 2021

Built and led an applied NLP research team delivering production language models for LivePerson Conversational Cloud.

Data Scientist, NLP · LivePersonApril 2017 – September 2018

Helped build the applied machine learning team and developed NLP methods for large conversational datasets.

Graduate Student Researcher · NYU Center for Data ScienceAugust 2016 – May 2017

Worked on the SearchQA dataset and open-domain question answering in the CILVR group.

Data Scientist · Wylan EnergySummer 2016

Developed simulation, forecasting, and probabilistic bidding models for U.S. electricity capacity markets.

CEO · MD Consulting2014 – 2015

Built a laboratory information management system for high-throughput genetic sequencing diagnostics.

Software Engineer · Exponent Partners2012 – 2014
Software Engineer · Groundswell2010 – 2012

Industry Reviewer

Program Committee · Knowledge Graphs & Agentic Systems Interplay (NORA), AACL-IJCNLP workshop; IJCAI-ECAI2026
NeurIPS2025
ACL2023, 2025, 2026
NAACL2019, 2021, 2022, 2024
EMNLP2025, 2026
EACLP2026
COLING2020

Research

Patents

Education

  • M.S. Data Science, NYU Courant Institute · CILVR Lab / ML2 Group
  • B.A. Environmental Economics, University of Redlands · Minor in English Literature

Volunteering

Advisor to NYU Center for Data Science capstone groups (2019–present).