Matthew Zeidenberg is a Senior Research Associate at CCRC. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Sociology, both from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has a B.A. in Physics from Harvard. His Sociology Ph.D. dissertation addressed trends in federal civil litigation; his C.S. Ph.D. concerned improved methods of searching the Web. Matt came to CCRC from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, where he worked on many projects involving regional labor markets and the status of workers. Most recently, with collaborators Marc Scott of NYU and Pablo Mitnik of Wisconsin, he has been involved in research on various aspects of workers' careers, with particular attention to prospects for advancement in various industries and to the determinants of increases in wages over the course of a worker's career.

Since joining CCRC in October 2006, Matt has been primarily involved in data management, programming, and analysis of state unit record data from community colleges, that is, records on individual students (stripped of information that would allow anyone to identify the individuals concerned). He is working on contributing to CCRC's research mission of helping community colleges better track milestones and outcomes for students, and investigating what programs may be effective in producing positive outcomes for students, such as earning degrees or other valuable credentials.