Matthew Laws

(he/him)

PhD Student

Matt Laws
  • Distributed systems 
  • Artificial intelligence  
  • Security and privacy
  • BA in Computer Science, Williams College 

Matthew Laws is a PhD student in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He is advised by Cristina Nita-Rotaru.

Laws is passionate about ensuring that the remarkable possibilities of agentic AI are balanced with strong, specific security practices. As AI gains more autonomy and its unique security challenges emerge, his research seeks to discover systemic vulnerabilities, and to design historically informed architectures that support security and scalability with minimal assumptions of trust.

Before joining Khoury College in 2025, Laws held multiple research positions at Williams College, and showcased both his applied algorithms work at SEA and his predictive causal inference work at ACIC. He is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and is excited to conduct research with the Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDS2) group. He has also taught computer systems and machine learning courses at Khoury College.

In his free time, Laws likes to rock climb, play flag football, and teach classes in English for speakers of other languages at East Boston Harborside Community School.