Biographical Page for H. Scott Matthews

Scott is a principal at Avenue C Advisors. He previously was a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Matthews’s research and teaching focuses on engineering, economic, and social decision-making under uncertainty via large datasets, computation, and visualization methods. His current interests are in the use of connected vehicle technologies to provide high-resolution data on vehicle performance and use to improve mobility. Examples of particular topics of interest include using such data to improve vehicle safety and emissions, and to implement mileage-based vehicle fees. 

Previously, Matthews contributed to development of tools for environmental and energy life cycle assessment (LCA) 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 was a member of the NRC Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. 

At Carnegie Mellon, he was a member of the Green Design Institute, an interdisciplinary research consortium at Carnegie Mellon focused on modeling energy and environmental problems in the developing world. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the Departments of Economics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and Computer Science.

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