Andrea M. Matwyshyn
- Professor of Law and Engineering Policy, Penn State Dickinson Law
- Professor, SEDI, Penn State Engineering
- Founding Faculty Director, Penn State PILOT Lab
- Founding Faculty Director, Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity
- Steering Committee Member, Center for Socially Responsible AI (CSRAI)
- Affiliate Faculty, Bioethics Program, College of the Liberal Arts
- Email andreamm@psu.edu
- Phone 814-865-8900
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Education
- Ph.D., Northwestern University
- J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, with honors
- M.A, Northwestern University
- B.A., Northwestern University, with honors
Biography
Dr. Andrea M. Matwyshyn is an academic and author whose work focuses on the intersection of technology design, innovation policy, and law, particularly information security/ cybersecurity, artificial intelligence/machine learning, health tech and fraud, and consumer privacy and technology competition. Professor Matwyshyn serves as a professor at Penn State Dickinson Law and a professor in the engineering school at Penn State. She 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.
She has worked in both the public and the private sector. In 2022-2023, she served as both a Senior Special Advisor on Law, Technology, and the Digital Economy to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection and as a Senior Special Advisor on Information Security and Data Privacy to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Office of Enforcement. Previously, in 2014, she served as the Senior Policy Advisor/Academic in Residence at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. She also served as a consultant to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s CDRH on cybersecurity policy. As public service, she has testified in Congress and for various regulatory agencies on issues of information security regulation, IoT, machine learning and other technology regulatory issues, and she maintains ongoing policy engagement. Prior to becoming an academic, Professor Matwyshyn 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.
Professor Matwyshyn is also an affiliate scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. She has previously held primary appointments in University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Northwestern University School of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she founded the Center for Information Research in 2005, and Northeastern University School of Law/School of Computer Science, where she co-founded the Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity (CLIC) in 2017. She has held visiting appointments or affiliations at the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, Singapore Management University, the Indian School of Business, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, where she was the Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information Technology Policy in in 2014-15 and an affiliate scholar in 2015-2017. In 2016, she was named a Senior Fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, and, in 2019, she was a visiting researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Institute for Communication Sciences (ISCC) at the Sorbonne.
Professor Matwyshyn was a US-UK Fulbright Commission Cyber Security Scholar award recipient in 2016-2017. In 2019-2021, she was a Fellow of the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress.