Matt previously served as a Software Contributor and Project Manager at VotingWorks, an open-source, risk-limiting audit software that has been used in over a dozen states. His major contributions included architecting pieces of VotingWorks’ voting system security model and managing organizational security and compliance. He wrote the first implementation of batch comparison risk-limiting audits to be used at a large scale, a project that has gone on to audit millions of ballots over the last several years. Findings from his extensive research have been integrated into poll worker manuals across the United States to encourage improved security and accessibility of ballot marking devices. 

Matt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Rice University and earned both his Master of Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, authoring his dissertation on election security theory and practice.