Matthew Kam

Matthew is currently at Google, where he spearheaded a recent study on artificial intelligence’s impact on the workforce. The findings have informed a national government program in Singapore to upskill 10,000 software engineers for an age of AI; an academia-industry consortium in Denmark to upskill another 10,000 software engineers; and innovative curricula at Carnegie Mellon University to prepare students for the future of work. He also advises organizations such as Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org, UNICEF, and the Computing Research Association to help translate the research into global, practical action.

In Matthew’s earlier roles at Google, he co-founded three applied research teams and managed high-impact product research as a pioneering member of its education products teams. His research helped build Google for Education’s learning solutions: Chromebook laptops, Google Classroom, Google Forms, and Expeditions virtual-reality field trips. Collectively, these products have improved the lives of over 100 million students and teachers around the world.

Before Google, Matthew was briefly a tenure-track professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at Carnegie Mellon and a senior researcher with the American Institutes for Research’s international development practice. In the field of HCI, his academic research on education in lower-income countries helped pioneer a paradigm shift toward human-centered design for equitable access to opportunity. Matthew’s expertise is grounded in his formal training spanning Computer Science (PhD and BS), Education (PhD minor), and Economics (BA) from the University of California, Berkeley.