Matt Shu

An archive
of things made.

Research, software, technical writing, essays, and older internet artifacts.

Research

How latent and prompting biases in AI-generated historical narratives influence opinions

PNAS Nexus ↗

Sociology, AI-generated history, and political opinion

Generating the Past

Social Science Computer Review ↗

AI summaries, historical knowledge, and differences across social groups

A Good Plan is Hard to Find

EMNLP · 2025 ↗

Why preferred plans are not always the plans that help

KAR³L

EMNLP · 2024 ↗

Content-aware flashcard scheduling grounded in real study behavior

A SMART Mnemonic Sounds like “Glue Tonic”

EMNLP · 2024 ↗

Mnemonic generation trained with student feedback

Work

Software

Essays

Rich as I Could Be: Dolly Parton and My Mama’s Cooking

Essay · Substack ↗

Demographic expectations, working-class inheritance, and becoming a country music fan

Older writing & artifacts

Exploring Natural Language Processing in Education and Education Studies

2021 ↗

Topic models and word embeddings as tools for education research