#  Matthew Kopec 

Program Director and Lecturer, Embedded EthiCS

 

 

 



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 email <mkopec@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Matt is the Program Director for [Embedded EthiCS@Harvard](https://embeddedethics.seas.harvard.edu/), an educational program that embeds short modules on the ethical and social implications of computing technologies into courses across Harvard's CS curriculum. He holds an MA from Virginia Tech (supervised by Joe Pitt) and a PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison (supervised by Elliott Sober), and he has previously taught at Northeastern, Australian National University, Northwestern, and University of Colorado-Boulder. His research is currently focused on topics related to the normative implications of computing like content moderation for online social media misinformation, self-fulfilling algorithmic predictions, big tech regulation, and assessment techniques for tech ethics educational programs.



 

 

 





 

 

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