Surya Mattu
GUEST SPEAKER
Surya Mattu is a data journalist and engineer who has worked at The Markup, ProPublica, and Gizmodo’s Special Projects Desk.
At The Markup, he led teams that built Blacklight, a real-time website privacy inspector, and Citizen Browser, a custom application that collected data from the Facebook newsfeeds of over 3000 volunteers.
At ProPublica, Mattu worked on Machine Bias, a series that highlights how algorithmic systems can be biased and discriminate against people in the housing and criminal justice system. Machine Bias was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Explanatory Journalism.
