One of his research projects investigates how e-learning games on cellphones can be designed to extend literacy and second language learning in rural areas and the urban slums in the developing world. He is embarking on a controlled experiment involving 800 rural children in 40 villages in India, with early replication underway in Kenya and China. His research has received major sponsorship from the MacArthur Foundation, Microsoft, National Science Foundation, Nokia, Qualcomm and Verizon. It was featured in the press in India, ABC News and a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television documentary. Matthew earned all his degrees at the University of California, Berkeley: Ph.D. in Computer Science with a minor in Education, B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and B.A. in Economics.