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Scott Matthews is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a member of the Green Design Institute, an interdisciplinary research consortium at Carnegie Mellon focused on modeling energy and environmental problems as systems, building decision support tools, and supporting robust policy decisions under uncertainty. Matthews’s research and teaching focuses on valuing the socioeconomic implications of environmental systems, sustainable engineering, and industrial ecology. His work intends to facilitate infrastructure and environmental decision-making under uncertainty via large datasets, computation, and visualization methods. Matthews has contributed to development of tools for environmental and energy life-cycle assessment of products and processes (such as the EIO-LCA model), estimating and tracking environmental effects across global supply chains (such as carbon footprinting), and the sustainability of infrastructure systems. Matthews has served as chair of the Committee on Sustainable Systems and Technology with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and on the Executive Committee for the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment. He participated in the National Research Council study on the Hidden Costs of Energy and is a member of the NRC Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology At Carnegie Mellon, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the Departments of Economics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and Computer Science.