Her thesis focused on individual level determinants of teens' interest in technology entrepreneurship and careers[14][15] and was published in part as a law review article in 2003.
[22] In 2014, Matwyshyn served as an academic in residence/senior policy advisor at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission,[23] where her work focused on data security and consumer privacy initiatives.
[32] In 2022, Matwyshyn was appointed by the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection as a Senior Special Advisor on Law, Technology, and the Digital Economy.
[36] In 2019, Matwyshyn was named a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Law School[37] and a visiting researcher at Centre Internet et Societe in CNRS at the Sorbonne.
[43] In 2021, she became the founding faculty director of the Anuncia Donecia Songsong Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity at Penn State Law, after a $1 million donation was made by Katie Moussouris.