# Matthew Volk

> Tech Policy Fellow; Tech Lead @ FB Integrity

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewvolk

I'm an engineer interested in serving the public good. I'm currently a Tech Policy Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a tech lead at Facebook. I care a lot about keeping online spaces safe from political disinformation, hate speech, and elections interference.

## Work Experience
### Tech Policy Fellow @ Aspen Tech Policy Hub
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Dark Political Ads and Disinformation
 - Interviewed dozens of experts from social media, philanthropy, and government
 - Drafted regulations for the FEC and FTC to regulate misleading political ad practices
 - Created educational outputs
 - To be published in late April 2020

Racial Bias in Educational Technology
 - Created guidelines for the equitable use of AI in edtech, to be used in procurement
 - To be published in late April 2020

Modernizing the US's Response to Online Child Sexual Exploitation
 - Plan for the next president to double funding and invest in new tech without Congressional action
 - To be published in late June 2020 with the Day One Project

### Senior Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Present | Menlo Park, CA
I work on the Integrity Infrastructure team, which is responsible for much of Facebook's security efforts. I specialize in machine learning and systems, and spend a lot of time writing in Haskell, C++, Python, and a long tail of query languages.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Stanford, CA
CS240: Advanced Topics in Operating Systems

### Teaching Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Stanford, CA
TA for CS107: Computer Organization and Systems
 - Taught section of 20 students, held office hours
 - Designed and wrote new security-focused assignment

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park, CA
Abuse Detection Systems team. 

Projects:
 - Machine learning model monitoring system (C++, Python)
 - Machine learning model feature suggestion / visualization (C++, Python, Hack)
 - Database query aggregation (Haskell)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park, CA
•	Refactored machine learning models for a proprietary Internet.org project
•	Added web traffic infrastructure to improve Internet.org traffic analytics

### Section Leader @ Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Teaching course sections of introductory computer science classes (CS106A/B/X)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Flatiron Health
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | New York, New York
•	Managed and optimized proprietary internal data aggregation system used for cancer data analytics
•	Re-architectured build system to better handle changing dependencies, reducing dependency generation time over the time of my internship by 4-5 orders of magnitude.
•	Worked with HIPAA compliancy
•	Completed Google Ventures EDGE Training

### Research Assistant @ Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
In charge of characterizing and monitoring atomic layer deposition and low-pressure chemical vapor deposition systems by running qualification exams on silicon wafers in the SNF cleanroom.

### Math and Physics Tutor @ Stanford University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
I tutored 17 math and physics classes, including: 
•	Calculus, Linear Algebra and Multivariable Differential Calculus, Multivariable Integral Calculus, Ordinary Differential Equations
•	Honors Mechanics, Honors Electricity and Magnetism, Honors Quantum and Thermal Mechanics

### Marketing Intern @ Linfield Media
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Worked to optimize their websites’ SEO and SEM performance and helped launch new website

### Research Intern @ National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
•	Helped design and create an educational video game to aid struggling students in learning multiplication and division of fractions
•	Conducted research and ran data analysis for the resulting research paper


## Education
### Master's Degree in Computer Science - Security and Artificial Intelligence (dual focus)
Stanford University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthewvolk

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Last updated: 2026-03-23