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Matthew A. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences and Affiliate Professor in the Stuart School of Business. He was trained in political science, economics, and public policy at the University of California at San Diego (B.A.) and the University of Southern California (M.A. & Ph.D.), and he earned an M.A. in Korean Studies at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul, having won a Woojung Scholarship to study there.

At Illinois Tech, Shapiro teaches the following courses: East Asian Political Economy; Energy Policy; Innovation Policy; Politics & Public Policy; Politics of Science & Technology; Program Planning & Evaluation; Research Methods for the Social Sciences.

Professional Affiliations/Orgs: American Political Science Association, Association for Asian Studies, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Midwest Political Science Association

Education

Ph.D., University of Southern California, Political Economy and Public Policy
M.A., University of Southern California, Economics
M.A., Yonsei University, Korean Studies
B.A., University of California-San Diego, Political Science

Research Interests

Northeast Asian innovation systems

Environmental and energy policies

Political communication

Publications

[since 2020]

Ping Liu, Karthik Shivaram, Aron Culotta, Matthew Shapiro, and Mustafa Bilgic (2024) “How Does Empowering Users with Greater System Control Affect News Filter Bubbles?” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’24), Menlo Park: AAAI Press.

Karthik Shivaram, Mustafa Bilgic, Matthew Shapiro , and Aron Culotta (2024) “Characterizing Online Criticism of Partisan News Media Using Weakly Supervised Learning,” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’24), Menlo Park: AAAI Press.

Karthik Shivaram, Mustafa Bilgic, Matthew Shapiro, and Aron Culotta (2024) “Forecasting Political News Engagement on Social Media,” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’24), Menlo Park: AAAI Press.

Tianyuan Li, Matthew A. Shapiro, Mohammad Heidarinejad, and Brent Stephens (2024) “Ten Questions Concerning Building Electrification,” Building and Environment.

Karthik Shivaram, Ping Liu, Matthew Shapiro, Mustafa Bilgic, and Aron Culotta (2022) “Reducing Cross-Topic Political Homogenization in Content-Based News Recommendation,” Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 220-228.

Lida Kuang, Samruda Pobbathi, Yuri Mansury, Matthew A. Shapiro, and Vijay K. Gurbani (2022) “Predicting age and Gender from Network Telemetry: Implications for Privacy and Impact on Policy,” PLoS ONE, 17(7): e0271714.

Siva K. Balasubramanian, Mustafa Bilgic, Aron Culotta, Libby Hemphill, Anita Nikolich, and Matthew A. Shapiro (2022) “Leaders or Followers? A Temporal Analysis of Tweets from IRA Trolls,” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’22), Menlo Park: AAAI Press.

Matthew A. Shapiro, Toby Bolsen, Yungwook Kim (2022) “Air Pollution in Northeast Asia: Can Framing of Public Messages Influence Beliefs and Attributions?” Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 44(1): 26-46.

Matthew A. Shapiro and Masaru Yarime (2021) “Effects of National Affiliations and International Collaboration on Scientific Findings: The Case of Transboundary Air Pollution in Northeast Asia,” Environmental Science and Policy, 118: 71-85.

Ping Liu, Karthik Shivaram, Aron Culotta, Matthew A. Shapiro, Mustafa Bilgic (2021) “The Interaction between Political Typology and Filter Bubbles in News Recommendation Algorithms,” Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (WWW ’21), New York: ACM Press.

Matthew A. Shapiro (2020) “Next-Generation Battery Research and Development: Non-Politicized Science at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research,” Energy Policy, 145: 111771.

Projects

Shapiro has received funding from the NSF (SAI, HCC, EAGER), NOAA, the EPA, the Korea Foundation, among others. He was a 2022-23 Fulbright U.S. Scholar and has held research fellowships and appointments at Argonne National Laboratory’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, the Asiatic Research Institute at Korea University, the East Asia Institute, the Industrial Technology Research Institute, and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute.

Expertise

Shapiro's research interests include: innovation systems and the challenges of R&D collaboration and technology transfer; the Northeast Asian region and its transboundary air pollution problem; politicized science and how people respond to climate change and “green” energy; politics and technology, including filter bubble formation and social media signaling.

Additional Info

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