Andrea M. Matwyshyn is a United States law professor and engineering professor at
The Pennsylvania State University
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. She is known as a scholar of
technology policy
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According to the American scientist and policy advisor Lewis M. Branscomb, technology policy concerns the "public means for nurturing those capabilities and op ...
, particularly as an expert at the intersection of
law
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and
computer security
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and for her work with government. She is credited with originating the legal and policy concept of the Internet of Bodies.
Biography
Matwyshyn received her BA with honors from
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Charte ...
in 1996, and her MA in international relations from Northwestern also in 1996. She received her JD with honors from
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the law school of Northwestern University, a Private university, private research university. It is located on the university's Chicago campus. Northwestern Law has been ranked among the top 14, ...
in 1999, and her PhD in Human Development and Social Policy, also from Northwestern, in 2005. Her thesis focused on individual level determinants of teens' interest in technology entrepreneurship and careers
and was published in part as a law review article in 2003.
Between 1999 and 2003, Matwyshyn practiced law as a corporate attorney. Between 2003 and 2005, Matwyshyn was a faculty member in the Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center at
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the law school of Northwestern University, a Private university, private research university. It is located on the university's Chicago campus. Northwestern Law has been ranked among the top 14, ...
. In 2005 she was appointed Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Frederic G. Levin College of Law, and the faculty director of the Center for Information Research. In 2007 she was appointed an Assistant Professor, Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The
Wharton School
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, University of Pennsylvania. In 2012, she became an affiliate scholar of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. In 2014, Matwyshyn served as an academic in residence/senior policy advisor at the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission
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, where her work focused on
data security
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Technologies
Disk encryption
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and
consumer privacy
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A variety of social, legal and political issues arise from the interaction of the public's potential expectation of privacy and the collection and di ...
initiatives.
In 2015, Matwyshyn was appointed as the
Microsoft
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Visiting Professor of Information Technology Policy at
Princeton University
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's Center for Information Technology Policy in the
School of Public and International Affairs
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and Department of
Computer Science
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. During this time, she represented computer scientists
Steve Bellovin
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,
Matt Blaze
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,
Alex Halderman
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, and
Nadia Heninger
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Contributions
Heninger is known for her work on freezing powered-down security devic ...
and testified before the Copyright Office in a successful petition to obtain an exemption to
Section 1201 of the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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to permit
information security
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research on consumer devices, including
voting machine
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s. In 2015 she was appointed Professor of Law at
Northeastern University School of Law
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and co-founded the Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC).
Beginning in 2019 Matwyshyn became the Associate Dean of Innovation and Technology and a professor on the
Penn State Law
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faculty and a professor in the
Penn State College of Engineering
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.
She is also the founding director of the Penn State Policy Innovation Lab of Tomorrow (PILOT lab).
In 2022, Matwyshyn was appointed by the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection as a Senior Special Advisor on Law, Technology, and the Digital Economy.
Honors
In 2016, Matwyshyn was awarded a US/UK Fulbright Cyber Security award. In 2017, she was named a Senior Fellow in the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council.
In 2019, Matwyshyn was named a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Law School and a visiting researcher at Centre Internet et Societe in CNRS at the Sorbonne. She was also appointed a fellow in residence at the
John W. Kluge Center
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at the
Library of Congress
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.
In 2020, her work on the Internet of Bodies (IoB) was used as a springboard for reports on the topic by Rand Corporation and the World Economic Forum. She is also part of an IEEE team of technology experts who generate annual trend predictions and the Washington Post's team of cybersecurity experts.
In 2021, she became the founding faculty director of the Anuncia Donecia Songsong Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity at Penn State Law, after a $1 million donation was made by
Katie Moussouris
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References
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Living people
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)