Matthew Sun

writing

• Tech for good, but better ▰ Reboot
• Through the Wire ▰ Logic(s), Issue 18: Pivot
• e-raced ▰ Kernel, Issue 1
• Urgency and agency in technology policy: A conversation with Ifeoma Ozoma ▰ Kernel, Issue 2

In college, I also contributed writing about algorithmic justice and the law and building tech for good ecosystems on college campuses for the Association for Computing Machinery.

research

• T-RECS: A Simulation Tool to Study the Societal Impact of Recommender Systems (arXiv, GitHub)
  Eli Lucherini, Matthew Sun, Amy Winecoff, Arvind Narayanan
• Weaving privacy and power: On the privacy practices of labor organizers in the US technology industry (paper)
  Sayash Kapoor*, Matthew Sun*, Mona Wang*, Klaudia Jaźwińska*, Elizabeth Watkins* · ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2022) · Impact Recognition Award

* denotes equal contribution.

code

• Kernel Magazine (link): I redesigned the Kernel website for the launch of the second issue. The website still uses the code I wrote!
• MCBoost (GitHub, paper): Calibrating a model's predictions to improve subgroup fairness.
• GerryChainJulia (GitHub): Measuring gerrymandering with Markov Chain Monte Carlo.

miscellaneous

• Communities I'm part of around the Bay: Bay Area Tenants and Neighbors Council, Abacus Row language chats, and an Infinite Jest book club.
• Books I like: Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater (thanks Sheon for the recommendation), Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, Becca Rothfeld's All Things Are Too Small, and Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection.
• Other recommendations: the Heavyweight podcast, the Roxie Theater, sunset hikes at Land's End, Readwise, Telve Cafe (specifically, the little nook in the window) and Browser Books, whose discounted books table often has some real gems.

contact

Feel free to drop me a line at hello[at]sunnymatt.com or DM me on Twitter.