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About Andrea Matwyshyn

Andrea Matwyshyn is founding director of the Penn State PILOT Lab (Policy Innovation Lab of Tomorrow), an interdisciplinary technology policy lab, and a professor with Penn State Law and the College of Engineering. She is an academic and author whose work focuses on technology and information policy and law, particularly information security/”cybersecurity,” artificial intelligence, consumer privacy, intellectual property, health technology, and technology workforce pipeline policy. Previously, she was professor of law/professor of computer science (by courtesy) at Northeastern University, where she served as co-director of the Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity (CLIC). She is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and as a senior fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcraft Center on International Security.
Professor Matwyshyn has worked in both the public and private sectors. In 2014, she served as the senior policy advisor/academic in residence at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. As public service, she has testified in Congress on issues of information security regulation, and she maintains ongoing policy engagement. Prior to becoming an academic, she was a corporate attorney in private practice, focusing her work on technology transactions. She continues to maintain collaborative technology industry relationships and has authored articles for the popular business press, including The Wall Street Journal.
Professor Matwyshyn has previously held primary appointments in University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Northwestern University School of Law, and the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She also has held visiting appointments or affiliations at the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, Singapore Management University, Indian School of Business, University of Notre Dame, and Princeton University, where she was the Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information Technology Policy during 2014-15. Professor Matwyshyn was a U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission Cyber Security Scholar award recipient in 2016-17.

Positions

Present Associate Dean for Innovation and Policy and Professor of Law and Engineering Policy, Penn State Law
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Computer Science Articles and Conference Proceedings (2)

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Journal Discussions, Reviews and Commentaries (3)

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