Matthew Conlen is a human-computer interaction researcher working at Midjourney. He is the creator of Realtime, an automated data-journalism platform, and Idyll, a markup language for writing interactive multimedia documents.

Matthew has previously worked with The New York Times, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Our World in Data, FiveThirtyEight, and others. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington where he was advised by Jeffrey Heer in the Interactive Data Lab.