About me

My Blog

This is the blog of Matthew Esposito! I am a computer science/philosophy student at the College of William & Mary.

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About me (fun)

• I love my dogs very much
• I occasionally climb trees
• I've listened to 47,203 minutes of music this year. 55% of that was "danceable" music!
• I still use my Sony Walkman, 12 years after I got it (thank you 7 year old me, for not breaking it!). Now running Rockbox!
• My 7th grade science project was running sslstrip on our home wifi and tricking my dad into giving up his Amazon password. It was rejected from my science fair for being "too complicated" and various other "ethical issues".

About me (other)

• I am the team lead of the GeoDev team at the Geospatial Evaluation and Observation Lab at William & Mary, where we work with machine learning and democratize access to datasets. Some of the awesome things we are doing as a lab:

  • Sharing openly-licensed (CC BY 4.0) geographic boundaries for every country in the world!
  • Providing boundaries to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for vaccine distribution
  • Working with the Global Environment Facility to better distribute billions of dollars in environmental grants by computationally analyzing project reports
  • Partnering with NGA, the DOD, and the DHS while using geospatial and open source intelligence to analyze potential international threats.
  • Working alongside the UN's Second Administrative Level Boundaries program and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
  • As a team, we are building SCOPE from this paper

• I assisted with an honors thesis research paper into worldwide governments' use of internet shutdowns to suppress dissent and control information flow, shedding light on the impact of these tactics on freedom of expression and the right to access information

• I am a founding member and DevOps lead of the Linux/FLOSS club at William & Mary

• I have contributed to the Rust programming language!

• I gave a talk introducing Rust at William & Mary's 8th Annual Hackathon, Cypher @ W&M!

Contact

You can almost always find me biking speedily around the William & Mary campus. Please say hi!

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