As a founder and research scientist, I have spent the last decade bridging the gap between frontier research and commercial reality. Since co-founding RIOS Intelligent Machines in 2018, I’ve built and led distributed organizations to deliver AI-powered robotics across industries.
My current focus is combining multimodal AI with compounding feedback loops and continual learning. Agents that leverage tools, evaluation-driven iteration, human-AI collaboration and deployment patterns that make frontier capabilities usable by real organizations.
Systems
Architecting scalable compute and perception stacks for multimodal vision & control.
Dynamics
Agentic workflows and closed-loop learning systems that adapt and improve with scale.
I value scientific rigor, high-talent density, pragmatic leadership, and pushing agentic workflows into settings where “demo-grade” systems fail.
Matthew E. Shaffer
I build and lead teams that turn emerging research into deployed, closed-loop systems.
Founder and applied AI leader focused on turning advanced AI into deployed, closed-loop systems.
Since co-founding RIOS Intelligent Machines in 2018, I’ve built and led distributed organizations to deliver AI-powered robotics across industries, bridging the gap between frontier research and commercial reality.
