Matthew Wilcox

Resume

Data Scientist & AI Engineer | Sports Technology

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Experience

Sports Science Fellow

Rutgers University Football

May 2025 – Feb 2026
  • Designed and implemented a SQL database and automated ETL pipelines to centralize athlete monitoring data and provide integration with dashboards and apps.
  • Assist in data collection and processing for VALD, Catapult, 1080 Sprint, and Oura Rings.
  • Developed algorithms for automatic run event detection using GPS data informed by academic research.
  • Constructed tools to analyze Velocity Decrement in resistance training.

Sports Science Intern

Duke University Athletics

January 2025 – May 2025
  • Designed and implemented custom softball-specific load metrics using Catapult wearable data.
  • Built interactive Shiny dashboards and automated daily/weekly reports.
  • Led development of a 250+ page base running analysis using GPS/velocity.
  • Aligned Trackman pitch timestamps with Catapult 100 Hz data to label pitch events for predictive modeling.

Assistant & Goalkeeper Coach, Men's Soccer

New College of Florida

August 2023 – December 2024
  • Analyzed and presented post-match Wyscout reports, delivering actionable insights to coaching staff.
  • Communicated data-driven recommendations for player performance optimization and tactical adjustments.
  • Designed and conducted goalkeeper training sessions five times per week to enhance player development.

Graduate Research Assistant

New College of Florida

September 2024 – December 2024
  • Scraped match day shooting and expected goals data from various online sources.
  • Integrated newly scraped data with existing datasets for advanced analytics.

Head Coach

DME, Sarasota, FL

August 2024 – December 2024

Graduate Student Research Intern

USDA ARS

May 2024 – August 2024
  • Built Random Forest, XGBoost, Support Vector Machine, and Neural Network models to analyze film properties.
  • Conducted significance testing and feature selection to optimize model performance.

Education

M.S. Applied Data Science

New College of Florida

Sarasota, FL

May 2025GPA: 3.94 / 4.0

B.S. Data Science & Finance

Ramapo College of New Jersey

Mahwah, NJ

May 2023GPA: 3.483 / 4.0

Honors: Dean's List, Provost Scholarship, Student Athletic Council Member

Coursework: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Data Visualization, Distributed Computing, Applied Statistics, Database Design, Algorithms, Linear Algebra, Data Munging, Econometrics

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

RPython

AI & ML

Anthropic APIAWS BedrockAWS PollyOpenAI APILangChainHugging FaceStable DiffusionComfyUIKokoroOllamaRandom ForestXGBoostGradient BoostingSupport Vector MachineLogistic RegressionLinear RegressionNeural NetworksDeep Learning

Python

NumPyPandasMatplotlibSeabornPlotlyDashScikit-LearnBeautifulSoupFlaskTensorFlowPyTorchOpenCV

R

TidyverseTidymodelsrvestShinyPlotly

Databases

SQL (Oracle)CouchDBRedisNeo4j

Sports Technology

CatapultVALDHawkins Dynamics1080 SprintEliteFormOuraTeamworks

Other

DockerLinuxAWSMachine VirtualizationExcelHadoopSparkTableauPower BI