ASSOCIATE DEAN OF INNOVATION ANDREA MATWYSHYN PRESENTS HER NEW ARTICLE "EXPLOIT MACHINA" AT UVA LAW
April 2025 — Professor of Law and Engineering Policy/Associate Dean of Innovation Andrea Matwyshyn recently presented her new article “Exploit Machina” at UVA Law as part of the UVA LawTech Center speaker series. The article is forthcoming in UC Davis Law Review in December 2025.
Professor Matwyshyn’s article “Exploit Machina” focuses on situations where broken technologies and broken governance combine to irreparably harm the public. Exploit machina “involves organizational choices to knowingly leverage technology as part of legally problematic conduct, including through various forms of fraud.”
Dr. Andrea M. Matwyshyn serves as a Professor and the Associate Dean of Innovation at Penn State Dickinson Law. She is also a professor in the engineering school at Penn State and is the founding faculty director of both the Penn State PILOT Lab (Policy Innovation Lab of Tomorrow), an interdisciplinary technology policy lab, and the Anuncia Donecia Songsong Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity, a technology equity lab and clinic. She is also an affiliate scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and the Digital Law Group at Monash University.
Matwyshyn is an academic and author whose work focuses on the intersection of technology design, innovation policy, and law, particularly the role of information security/ cybersecurity, artificial intelligence/machine learning, health tech, consumer privacy, intellectual property, and technology competition.