Matt Kusner is an associate professor in machine learning at University College London. His work aims to design simple machine learning models tailored to the constraints of the problem at hand, particularly in causal inference, social justice, private learning, and molecular/materials design. After getting his PhD in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2016, Matt was a part of the first cohort of research fellows at the Alan Turing Institute in London, UK's National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. His work was given the Turner Dissertation Award for best Computer Science & Engineering doctoral dissertation. Before joining UCL, he was an associate professor at the University of Oxford and tutorial fellow at Jesus College.