Matt Wood attended medical school at the University of Nottingham, and proceeded to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics, also at the University of Nottingham. There he studied protein folding and published several articles on protein structure prediction using machine learning. After completing his Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor Wood joined the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City as a post-doctoral fellowship
He continued to work on bioinformatics research and nascent technologies for working with large databases, and text mining projects. After returning to the United Kingdom from New York, Doctor Wood joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to work on the Ensembl genome browser, a joint initiative between Sanger and the European Bioinformatics Institute. Doctor Wood contributed code and new features to the Ensembl code base, and transitioned to the deoxyribonucleic acid sequencing facility at Sanger as the Head of Production Software.
In this new role, Doctor Wood was part of the team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute who deployed one of the largest deoxyribonucleic acid sequencing facilities in the world, managing petabytes of deoxyribonucleic acid sequences.
He was a contributing author of Beautiful Data published by O"Reilly Media. Doctor Wood continues to be involved in next-generation sequencing, and the clinical impacts of genomics, in his role at Amazon Web Services.
With the completion of the full production platform at Sanger, in 2009 Doctor Wood joined Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com as a Technology Evangelist, where he discussed the technical and business aspects of cloud computing to audiences around the world. He now focuses on high performance computing and big data in the cloud.
