Speaker - Matt Gaughan

Matt Gaughan is a graduate student researcher with the Community Data Science Collective. He is interested in helping to figure out how FLOSS communities' governance can best support their projects' software and is especially interested in how the collective management of software engineering impacts the critical utility of FLOSS projects in the global digital ecosystem. He is a PhD student in the Technology and Social Behavior program (a joint program in Computer Science and Communication Studies) at Northwestern University. Prior to this research, he worked as a software engineer.